Equal treatment for men and women is a good point in most areas, but less so in health care.
Many drugs have been tested on healthy men. One of the reasons for this is that it is more difficult to test medicines in women, because of the hormone balance. As a result, women are more likely to experience side effects from medication.
In short, there is too little knowledge of the female body, while there are differences with the male body in terms of health:
– Women live on average 3.6 years longer than men.
– Women die a quarter less often from cancer.
– More than half are less addicted than men.
– Women develop a chronic disease on average six years earlier than men.
– Women feel physically limited six months earlier.
– After the corrected figures for pregnancy and childbirth, women are on average ten percent more in hospital.
