Butler R N, Collins K S, Meier D E, Muller C F, Pinn V W
Henry L. Schwartz Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA.
Geriatrics. 1995 May;50(5):39-40, 43-6, 49.
In the United States, for every 100 men age 65 and older, there are 147 women, a ratio that has social and medical consequences. Five panelists "take the pulse" of older women's health in general and in the offices of primary care physicians in particular. They assess the status of medical education and the need to include older women in research and drug trials, issues of gender bias in health insurance and quality of treatment, ways to improve the use of preventive health services--such as mammography and Pap smears--by older women, and the role of office physicians in identifying and helping victims of domestic violence.
在美国，每100名65岁及以上的男性对应147名女性，这一比例会产生社会和医学后果。五名专家对老年女性的总体健康状况，尤其是在初级保健医生办公室中的健康状况“把脉”。他们评估医学教育的现状以及将老年女性纳入研究和药物试验的必要性、医疗保险中的性别偏见问题和治疗质量、提高老年女性对预防性健康服务（如乳房X光检查和巴氏涂片检查）的利用率的方法，以及门诊医生在识别和帮助家庭暴力受害者方面的作用。
