Who Uses the Health Services and Why?

Ashford, J. R.; Pearson, Nicky

doi:10.2307/2343559

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“…Moreover, even among those with manifest psychological problems, a proportion of women (but not men) reported themselves as being 'very happy'. Despite the high levels of negative affect (and self-reported symptoms) in younger men, it proved extremely difficult to obtain MICs for the GP sample; it is also known that men visit their doctor less frequently than women (Logan & Cushion, 1958;Ashford & Pearson, 1970) and thus have less opportunity to receive a psychiatric diagnosis. The pattern of psychiatric morbidity also differs between the sexes, with women having higher rates of disorders involving personal discomfort while men show more irresponsible and anti-social conduct, including alcoholism (Dohrenwend & Dohrenwend, 1976;Mechanic & Greenley, 1976).…”

Section: The Housewife Syndromementioning

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Sex differences in psychological well-being

Briscoe¹

1982

Psychol. Med. Monogr. Suppl.

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SYNOPSIS General practice prevalence figures indicate that there are between two and three women suffering from minor psychiatric illness for every man thus diagnosed. This study aims to explore possible reasons for this excess. The focus is on examining sex differences in the expression of feelings as well as symptoms, primarily in a sample of married couples selected from general practice (and characterized by a high proportion of individuals with manifest psychological difficulties) but also in a random population sample (which includes single as well as married people).The measures used include assessments of health together with indices of emotional responsiveness such as degree of satisfaction with various life domains, avowed happiness and the Affect Balance Scale, which have been developed by research workers whose interests lie mainly beyond the clinical sphere in monitoring the ' quality of life' experienced by the general population through the use of 'subjective social indicators'. These social survey techniques are here used with a more clinical orientation to give a broad focus to the question of sex differences in emotional responsiveness.The results indicate that women are, on the whole, more likely to express their feelings (both pleasant and unpleasant) than men. Men with manifest psychological problems are found to be comparatively rare and, unlike their female counterparts, "they show a drop in positive feelings of well-being rather than a rise in unpleasant feelings, as compared with the general population. Two specific groups to emerge with particularly low levels of psychological well-being are full-time housewives and older single men. It is concluded that there are underlying factors of a biological and/or social nature which predispose the sexes to show different degrees of affective response, upon which such additional influences as the frustrations of the housewife role are super-imposed.

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Section: The Housewife Syndromementioning

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Sex differences in psychological well-being

Briscoe¹

1982

Psychol. Med. Monogr. Suppl.

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“…The striking sex difference in the prognostic value of a casual blood pressure measurement accords with other evidence that untreated women tolerate hypertension better than do untreated men (Bechgaard, 1967). Fewer men than women seek the advice of their doctors (Ashford and Pearson, 1970). In these Welsh populations proportionately fewer men than women are treated for hypertension and they seem to be less well treated.…”

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Screening for Hypertension: Some Epidemiological Observations

Miall¹,

Chinn²

1974

BMJ

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SummaryData obtained in long-term epidemiological studies of arterial blood pressure in the general population in South Wales were analysed to provide background information for the rational planning of screening programmes for hypertension.The incidence rates for cardiovascular complications emphasize the much greater prognostic value of blood pressure measurements in men than in women. Proportionately fewer men are treated for hypertension at all ages and blood pressure levels; in the survey areas treatment for hypertension is less than satisfactory in both sexes but particularly inadequate among men.The data suggest that once a screening programme has been carried out rescreening can be made more efficient by allowing the intervals before re-examination to be determined by the initial findings rather than by age.

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“…Such a morbidity survey has been carried out in Exeter involving the co-operation of general practitioners and hospital in-patient and outpatient departments and a private Census of the population (Ashford and Pearson 1970).…”

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A Geographical Study of Mortality in an Urban Area

Griffiths

1971

Urban Studies

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Who Uses the Health Services and Why?

Cited by 19 publications

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Sex differences in psychological well-being

Sex differences in psychological well-being

Screening for Hypertension: Some Epidemiological Observations

A Geographical Study of Mortality in an Urban Area

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