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Salud Pública de México
versión impresa ISSN 0036-3634
Resumen
JUAREZ-HERRERA Y CAIRO, Lucero Aída; CASTRO-VASQUEZ, María del Carmen y RUIZ-CANTERO, María Teresa. A gender perspective analysis of perception and practices in coronary disease in women from northern México. Salud pública Méx [online]. 2016, vol.58, n.4, pp.428-436. ISSN 0036-3634. https://doi.org/10.21149/spm.v58i4.8023.
Objective:
To analyze the perception of coronary risk and health care practices in a group of Mexican women, from a gendered perspective.
Materials and methods:
Mixed methods: survey of 140 women; nine in-depth interviews to women with coronary disease; eight semi-structured interviews to physicians. Analysis: proportions contrast for quantitative data; and procedures of grounded theory for qualitative information.
Results:
More than 50% of women don't know their coronary risk and how to reduce it. Despite having information about heart disease, vulnerable women with chest pain sought medical attendance less than non-vulnerable women (p=0.0l); and are blamed by physicians. Women consider they lack sufficient information about how to reduce the risk of coronary disease, and blame themselves when ill.
Conclusions:
There are vulnerability conditions in women that modulate a low perception of their being at risk, and the scarcity of health care practices.
Palabras llave : coronary disease; gender bias; health knowledge; attitudes and practice.