When studying epidemiology, and trying to find out why people get sick in a certain place, the most important issue is preventive healthcare. More education, then, needs to happen to make preventative options more mainstream choices. Taking care of one s own health, again, is important although generally people do not do this. While no woman should die of cervical cancer because it can be prevented, in reality many women get diagnosed within the fourth phase of this deadly disease each year. Another important aspect to healthcare is mental health.
Women actually have more mental health problems in certain areas than men.
Men and women also differ in terms of reactions to medications and the same illnesses must be treated differently within the two sexes. For example, estrogen may actually ward off Alzheimer s disease in women, but more research must be conducted in many similar arenas. 20,000 suicides occur each year, mostly with the elderly. Panelists included Ms. Diane Justice, Deputy Assistant Secretary on Aging in the Office of Administration on Aging, and Dr. Anita Kablinger, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Louisiana State University. For You and Your Family Ms. Lynn Nicholas, president and CEO of Louisiana Hospital Association, discussed the uninsured.