Men have higher death rates at all ages and report more serious conditions than women. Women report the less serious conditions more often than men and assess their own health more negatively……. On the other hand, women who report the less serious conditions more often, are more likely to visit the doctor.
Men die earlier but women's health gets four times more funding.
Since funding for women's health is four times greater than the funding available for men's health issues, we have to wonder where the real gender bias lies.
The data from the ABS demonstrate that there are two factors at play as to why men have lower out of pocket health care costs than women.
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Firstly, men do not visit the doctor as frequently as women. Secondly, men have a shorter life span than the female population.
The federal government unveiled a $3.5 billion Women's Budget. There is no parallel budget funding for men's health.
Even excluding pregnancy-related visits, women were 33 percent more likely than men to visit a doctor, the reason being, annual examinations and preventive services were 100 percent higher for women than for men, and medication patterns differed significantly.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Federal Health Department said"the government's National Women's Health Strategy recognised gender could shape health outcomes, and it had established a National Women's Health Advisory Council to advise the government on ways to improve health for women and girls".
It becomes apparent that the "Spin Sisters" employed by the ABS are following the same script that Professor Janice Fiamengo had been taughtduring her undergraduate years. She talks about it in her interview with Paul Elam.
…basic fact of history never encountered it honestly read you know hundreds of texts of feminists and just basic you know women's history nobody talked about that fact…. the indoctrination was complete…basic facts that were hidden from me… I just assumed that it must be true…that the whole history of the human race was the history of women being disadvantaged to marginalizes and struggling for their freedom and struggling for their rights…" [emphasis added]
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Janice as an undergraduate said, "I wasn't interested in hearing the alternative viewpoint of course". This is statement reflects the reality that the "spin sisters" are not at all interested in hearing or even considering alternative points of view, especially views when those points of view are contrary to what they were indoctrinated into believing was true during their undergraduate years.
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