Full Description
How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care enables primary care clinicians by providing a framework to understand differences and better care for patients in their practice. Each chapter covers a subspecialty in medicine and discusses the influence of sex hormones on disease, along with sex and gender-based differences in clinical presentation, physical examination, laboratory results, treatment regimens, comorbidities and prognosis. Illustrative case examples and practical practice points help each chapter come alive. A special chapter on communication differences between men and women assists clinicians in their conversations with patients.
This book fills an important need by applying years of research findings to sex and gender specific medical care and demonstrating that an individualized approach to patient care will lead to improved detection, treatment and prevention of disease.
Contents
Section I: The Importance of Sex and Gender in Patient Care
1. Application of Sex and Gender Health: A Practical Framework
2. Clinician-Patient Communication: Gender Influences
Section II: Sex and Gender Evidence in Health and Disease
3. Addiction: Sex and Gender Evidence in Alcohol, Tobacco, and Opioids Substance Use Disorders
4. Autoimmune Diseases: Sex and Gender Evidence in Rheumatoid Arthritis, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, and Ankylosing Spondylitis
5. Cancer Screening and Prevention: Sex and Gender Evidence in Lung, Breast, and Colorectal Cancer
6. Cardiovascular Disease: Sex and Gender Evidence in Acute Ischemic Syndrome and Heart Failure
7. Gastrointestinal Diseases: Sex and Gender Evidence in Liver Lesions, Gastroesophageal Reflux, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
8. Mental Health: Sex and Gender Evidence in Schizophrenia, Depression, and Anxiety Disorders
9. Metabolic Disorders: Sex and Gender Evidence in Dyslipidemia, Diabetes, and Obesity
10. Musculoskeletal Disorders: Sex and Gender Evidence in ACL Injuries, Osteoarthritis, and Osteoporosis
11. Neurological Diseases: Sex and Gender Evidence in Stroke, Migraine, and Alzheimer's Dementia
12. Pharmacology: Sex and Gender Evidence in Medication Safety and Efficacy
13. Public Health in Your Practice: Sex and Gender Considerations in Access to Healthcare, Immunizations, and Intimate Partner Violence
14. Respiratory Diseases: Sex and Gender Evidence in Obstructive Sleep Apnea, COPD, and Asthma
Section III: Beyond Point of Care: Sex and Gender Influences in the Community of Practice
15. The Business of Medicine: Making the Case for a Sex and Gender Practice
16. Knowledge Resources in Sex and Gender Health
