Berg Judith A, Woods Nancy Fugate
University of Arizona College of Nursing, Tucson, AZ 85739, USA.
Nurs Clin North Am. 2009 Sep;44(3):375-84. doi: 10.1016/j.cnur.2009.06.003.
Caregiving is a women's health issue globally, as many more women than men are informal caregivers. Caregiving related to gender role socialization, burden, and economic and health consequences has been discussed in the literature. Together this body of work demonstrates some positive but mainly negative consequences to the health and economic circumstances of women. Overall achievement of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals has important implications for informal caregivers globally, because achievement of these goals is essential to reducing the undue burden, the lost opportunities, and the injustice of health care systems that take advantage of women's volunteer caregiving.
在全球范围内，照护是一个女性健康问题，因为非正式照护者中女性比男性多得多。文献中已经讨论了与性别角色社会化、负担以及经济和健康后果相关的照护问题。这一系列研究共同表明，对女性的健康和经济状况有一些积极影响，但主要是负面影响。联合国千年发展目标的总体实现对全球的非正式照护者具有重要意义，因为实现这些目标对于减轻利用女性志愿照护的医疗保健系统的过度负担、错失的机会和不公正现象至关重要。
