Gender and Health Outcomes: The Impact that Gender Has on The Use of the Healthcare System

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Introduction
Research Purpose
What is the correlation between gender and how often healthcare is sought out by members of a specific gender? There has always been an impending social different classification based on gender. This stems from how gender categorizes certain behaviors and attitudes as something that woman would do more likely than their male counterparts would do and vice versa. The purpose of this research paper is to understand the impact that gender has on the use of the healthcare system. If no correlation is found between gender and healthcare seeking behaviors then there is no relation between the two.
Literature Review
According to Sharon Asiskovitch’s 2010 article “Gender and health outcomes: The impact of healthcare system and their financing on life expectancies of women and men” sociologist have been interested in identifying correlations between women and men. And how these differences and similarities affect the likelihood that both woman, and men will seek out healthcare. Asiskovitch (2010) wants to identify if healthcare availability when it differs from women and men if it has any impact on life expectancy of these individuals. “Longitudinal comparative data on LE indicate a central societal division between men and woman (on average, women live longer than men.) (Asiskovitch, 2010) Asiskovitch (2010) goes on to say that there are many different factors that play into life expectancy of both women and men such as biology and genetics, health-related behavior and lifestyle, and economic wealth.
According to Sanhi Maria Barreto, Alexandre Kalache, and Luana Giatti’s 2006 article “Does health status explain gender dissimilarity in healthcare use among older adults?” there is evidence that supports ...

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...ng on life expectancies of woman and men.” Social Science & Medicine 70(2010): 886-895.
Barreto, Sandhi Maria, Alexandre Kalache, and Luana Giatti. 2006. “Does health status explain gender dissimilarity in healthcare use among older adults?” Cad. Saude Publica, Rio de Janeiro 22(2): 347-355.
Bryant, Toba, Chad Leaver, and James Dunn. 2009. “Unmet healthcare need, gender, and health inequalities in Canada.” Health Policy 91(2009): 24-32.
Fan, Jessie X., Ming Wen, Lei Jin, and Guixin Wang. 2012. “Disparities in Healthcare Utilization in China: Do Gender and Migration Status Matter?” J Fam Econ Iss 34 (2013): 52-63.
Roy, Kakoli, and Anoshua Chaudhuri. 2008. “Influences of socioeconomic status, wealth and financial empowerment on gender differences in health and healthcare utilization in later life: evidence from India.” Social Science & Medicine 66 (2008): 1951-1952

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