Afifi M
Ministry of Health Headquarters, Department of Non-Communicable Diseases, Muscat 113, Oman.
Singapore Med J. 2007 May;48(5):385-91.
Effective strategies for mental disorders prevention and its risk factors' reduction cannot be gender neutral, while the risks themselves are gender specific. This paper aims to discuss why gender matters in mental health, to explain the relationship of gender and health-seeking behaviour as a powerful determinant of gender differences, to examine the gender differences in common mental health disorders, namely, depressive and anxiety disorders, eating disorders, schizophrenia, and domestic violence, and finally, to raise some recommendations stemming from this review.
预防精神障碍及其降低风险因素的有效策略不能不考虑性别差异，因为风险本身具有性别特异性。本文旨在探讨性别为何在心理健康中至关重要，解释性别与寻求医疗行为之间的关系，而寻求医疗行为是性别差异的一个重要决定因素，研究常见精神障碍中的性别差异，即抑郁症、焦虑症、饮食失调、精神分裂症和家庭暴力，最后，基于本综述提出一些建议。
