these countries have the highest rates of smoking-related illnesses and deaths. Poor education can be an issue as well; for instance, only 26.6% of Chinese adults are aware that smoking causes heart disease, ca
Simply put, only 1 in 7 elderly patients gets regular cognitive assessments. Nevertheless, physicians provided feedback that such testing was declined by over 50% of their patients. A very unfortunate fact, as this illness kills more people thanbreast cancer and prostate cancer combined. 23.Alzhei...
She looked up the World Health Organization's definition for gender: Gender refers to the socially constructed characteristics of women and men—such as norms, roles and relationships of and between groups of women and men. It varies from society to society and can be changed. While most ...
The upper curve represents estimated AIDS incidence (number of new cases); the lower one represents the estimated number of deaths of adults and adolescents. HIV Surveillance in Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) HIV Surveillance in Women Epidemiology of HIV Infection through 2009 Burden of Diabetes...
Schizophrenia is a disease that typically begins in early adulthood; between the ages of 15 and 25. Men tend to get develop schizophrenia slightly earlier than women; whereas most males become ill between 16 and 25 years old, most females develop symptoms several years later, and the incidence...
males, but that is thought to be the result of, among other things, a combination of biological differences based on gender, as well as the differences in how girls and women are encouraged to interpret their environment and respond to it and how they express themselves compared to men and ...
Anorexia nervosa: Up to 95 percent of people who have anorexia are female. Bulimia nervosa: Approximately 80 percent of people with bulimia are women. Binge eating disorder: Rates of binge eating disorder are approximately the same among men and women. Eating Disorders in Men Although American wo...
Over 300,000 deaths in the U.S. a year are attributed to obesity. Obesity is second only to smoking as a cause of premature death in the United States.[13] Obesity is known to be a major risk factor for breast cancer in postmenopausal women. It also may determine the rate of breast...
Although more men than women are thought to suffer from pathological gambling, women are developing this disorder at higher rates, now making up as much as 25% of individuals with pathological gambling. Other facts about compulsive gambling are that men tend to develop this disorder during their ...
The Situation In Britain Is Getting Very Ugly As The Government Wages War On The PeopleIt has been apparent for a long time that there is a breakdown coming in the relationship between the Government and the people, and things are going to get messy. The election of a labour government to...