During this unit, you will examine the relationship between gender and health. Specifically, at the end of this unit you will be able to:

• Examine the relationship between gender/sex and mortality.
• Examine the relationship between gender/sex and morbidity.
• Examine the relationship between gender/sex and self-reported health.

In order to complete this unit, you should have the following:

• Your brain!
• A general, introductory, psychological text book. 

Each of the following pages examines how gender is related to health via a number of different definitions of health. You should note, however, that we have our first problem- most of the studies have investigated sex (i.e. biological definition) rather than gender (a social definition) and this should be borne in mind when completing the reading.

Guidelines on these web pages: how to use them, and the various conventions used within them can be found on this link.