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Gender-specific risk factors increase the likelihood of getting a particular mental disorder based on one's gender. Some gender-specific risk factors that disproportionately affect women are income inequality, low social ranking, unrelenting child care, gender-based violence, and socioeconomic disadvantages.
[9] There is a suggestion that assumptions regarding gender specific behavioral characteristics can lead to a diagnostic system which is biased. [34] The issue of gender bias with regard to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) personality disorder criteria has been controversial and widely debated. The fourth DSM (4th ed ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." [1] Identified by the 2012 World Development Report as one of two key human capital endowments, health can influence an individual's ability to reach his or her full potential in society. [2]
Participants for a case-control study were recruited from twelve centers of the International REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Study Group between 2008 and 2011. [1] The 484 participants (242 individuals with polysomnogram-confirmed RBD and 242 controls) completed the screen.
The Trauma Center Campaign was a grassroots direct action campaign that induced the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) to open an adult, level-1 trauma center.The campaign was organized by the Trauma Care Coalition, a coalition of community and student organizations founded in 2010 by the Black youth community organization Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY) and its parent ...
As of 2013, TQIP has not incorporated measures related to racial disparities in trauma outcomes. However, there is evidence to suggest that differences in trauma outcomes are due to the overall quality of hospitals serving higher proportions of minority patients, rather than being due to discriminatory delivery of care; that is, these hospitals ...
There is, however, a notably gender segregation in degree choice, correlated with lower incomes for graduates with "feminine" degrees, such as education or nursing, and higher incomes for those with "masculine" degrees, such as engineering. [94] [95] Females started outnumbering males in higher education in 1992.
The demographics of Chicago show that it is a very large, and ethnically and culturally diverse metropolis. It is the third largest city and metropolitan area in the United States by population. Chicago was home to over 2.7 million people in 2020, accounting for over 25% of the population in the Chicago metropolitan area , home to approximately ...