Earlier this year, the government launched a renewed Women’s Health Strategy. This, they said, could help to address “outdated and misogynistic practices around pain relief” and “long-standing disparities” in care.
If a new paper is anything to go by, this is long overdue.
According to research from the University of St Andrew’s, which reviewed 38 studies, “men and women are frequently treated differently by healthcare systems”.
Their analysis found that 33 of the 38 studies, selected because they specifically compared the care of men and women in a health setting, showed significant treatment discrepancies.
This included a trend of women being offered less “active management” than men with the same conditions, including heart failure, Parkinson’s, liver failure, and kidney disease.
What did the research show?
By issue, the analysis suggested:
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