Question

1. Discuss a women's health or men's health topic of interest to you. (Include condition, signs & symptoms, prevalence, incidence, treatment)

2. Do you know someone with the condition? If so, how is it being managed?

Answer 1

1)The major cause of death among womens over age of 60 are ischemic heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and cancers. Womens of this age suffer from these diseases due to their habits and life style that have been devoloped on their adolescence and young age like smoking, fast foods, heavy cholesterol diet, saturated fat and salt intake etc.

Other major disability seen in womens are vision loss. 2.5 million older womens go blond every year. This can be avoided by getting proper treatment especially in case of cataract. Low income countries people refuse to get essential treatment for the same.

In devoloping countries the care given to the older womens informally by families and neighbors. Provision of care contribute to economic, social and health burdens to the care givers. But in case of high income countries carr of the elderly covers in the insurance.

Women centered health issues like menopause, premenstrual dysphoric disorders depression etc cause emotional and physical symptoms and signs. Depression, lethargy and anxiety are common reaction to these health problems. Physical symptoms include changes in menstrual cycle, habits, weight gain etc.

There are some drug options for women health issues. They will respond well to pharmaceutical treatment. There are many anti depressants and hormonal therapy options for womens. Life style modification in early ages of women can prevent many issues. Education is essential, but the fact is many online sites provide wrong information which is hard to sift through.

2) There are many people I know with above mentioned health issues. Inorder to manage this adequate health care and supportive environment including opportunities for older women to contribute actively to society, focus on promoting Behavioral and lifestyle changes, building up age friendly environment for older womens etc are recommendable.