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In 1988 the World Health Organization has issued a “gender challenge” to nations and international organizations, a call for: a better appreciation of risk factors involving women’s health; the development of preventive strategies to lessen the impact of diseases that disproportionately plague older women (e.g., coronary heart disease, osteoporosis, and dementia); and an increased emphasis on understanding why men die sooner than women. (World Health Organization, 1998, The World Health Report 1998, Geneva).

Gender Medicine focuses on the impact of the gender on human physiology, pathophysiology, and clinical features of diseases. The concept of Gender refers to a complex interrelation and integration of sex – as a biological and functional marker of the human body – and psychological and cultural behaviour (due to ethnical, social, and religious background). Human health is strictly correlated to these two fundamental constituents of the gender. While the effect of sex, age, and cultural behaviour on the health of both women and men has been widely studied, attention to the impact of the gender differences on the pathophysiology and, therefore, on the management of the most common social diseases – such as cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis, diabetes, neurodegenerative disorders, anxiety and mood disorders, joints and rheumatic diseases, some tumors, to list a few – is both needed and lacking.
Precise explanations of the gender differences in life expectancy still elude scientists because of the apparent complex interplay of biological, social, and behavioural conditions. In order to win this exciting new battle for better health, the scientific community needs to develop a multidisciplinary approach integrating different competences and players such as physicians, researchers and experts in economics, clinical governance, communications, regulatory issues, health organization, education and training, and many sectors of industry.

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The Italian Research Center is an Association linked to many other Countries within the ISOGEM-International Society of Gender Medicine.

The website link of the Italian Research Center for Gender Health and Medicine is: http://www.centrostudinazionalesalutemedicinadigenere.it/

In this website you will find links to National and International Societies, Institutions, Scientific Journals and Events.
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