Reasons Women More Complaining About Her Health

News Health Articles - Reasons Women More Complaining About Her Health. When asked to rate their own health, the average woman claimed to have worse health conditions than men. Many of the assumption that women often overestimate their health condition. In fact, the study found that women did have a chronic disease rates are higher.

"There is an assumption that women report more health problems, are more likely to say that they are sick, or alarming symptoms of the disease than men," said the study's first author Davide Malmusi, of the Public Health Agency in Barcelona, ​​Spain.



Malmusi and colleagues collected data face-to-face interviews with more than 29,000 people about their health through the Spanish National Health Survey 2006. Approximately half of study participants aged 16-44 years, while the other half older.

Of all women interviewed, 38.8 percent rate their health in low or very low level and 25.7 percent reported that their activities were limited due to his health condition. In men, only 27 percent who rate their health worse and 19.3 percent reported that their activities are limited due to health condition.

But when researchers match the recognition of each person with a level of health, gender differences disappeared. Having a high number of chronic diseases that correlate with poor perceived health in the same extent in both sexes. That is, both in men and women with similar health conditions, women are no more claim to his poor health.

"There has long been debate over whether women's health conditions are reported or not subject to bias. Some researchers argue that women may prefer to exaggerate his health problems, and men are reluctant to acknowledge his illness. The finding explains that women who reported poor health conditions reflect the health problems underlying illness, "said sociologist Ellen Annandale University of Leicester in England.

Unfortunately, this study does not explain why women have more health problems. The data revealed that the health problems in women is associated with the five most chronic disorders: arthritis, mental disorders, neck pain, headache, and backache. Further studies will be needed to explain why this can happen.

"Women generally live longer than men. But the life expectancy gap has declined over time in many countries. One reason is because the health of men considered to have increased, while the women were not," said Annandale as reported myhealthnewsdaily. com, Friday (12/30/2011).

The study, published European Journal of Public Health This underlines the fact that women generally experience worse health conditions than men due to more severe health problems, not just for complaining about his health or alarming symptoms of the disease.