Ayushmati bharat longevity without good health spells suffering for women
While women tend to live longer than men, they suffer more health-related misery than men too. Recent findings from the World Health Statistics report of 2021 show how gender inequality mars the quality of life as women age, in much of the world. Hostile social norms undo women’s bodily advantage – in gender-unequal countries, men’s healthy life expectancy is ahead of women’s.Apart from nutritional deficits and time poverty, women have less access to healthcare, with barriers of resources and mobility as well as a social trivialising and misdiagnosing of their conditions. Often their reproductive illnesses or cardiovascular problems are not attended to in full.
Remember, ‘hysteria’ was once a common medical diagnosis. Supposedly an emotional excess caused by the uterus (hystera), it was actually just a word to dismiss health complaints as ‘irrational’ feminine panic. Medical injustice ranges from clinical trial skews to disparities in treatment. Chronic pain conditions that affect us, from fibromyalgia to osteoporosis are still under-diagnosed around the world. Studies show that women wait longer in emergency rooms and are less likely to be given painkillers. Families, institutions, women themselves are trained to ignore their distress. This is exacerbated by factors like poverty and location.
This gap between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy is troubling, especially in countries like ours with minimal social security. For all too many women, longevity is clearly not a blessing.
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