| Description |
1 online resource (253 pages) |
| Series |
European Respiratory Monograph ; v.25 |
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European respiratory monograph.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Guest editors -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Philosophical introduction -- As long as there is breath -- Chapter 1 -- Sex differences in airway anatomy over human lifespan -- Chapter 2 -- Gender differences in airway behaviour (physiology) over the human lifespan -- Chapter 3 -- Gender differences in immunity over human lifespan -- Chapter 4 -- Adherence with therapy for women with respiratory illnesses -- Chapter 5 -- Differences between males and females in the natural history of asthma and COPD -- Chapter 6 -- Gender differences in the natural history of pulmonary diseases |
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Chapter 17 -- Women and pulmonary arterial hypertension -- Chapter 18 -- Gender and respiratory infections -- Instructions to authors |
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Chapter 7 -- Women and response to drugs -- Chapter 8 -- Women and asthma -- Chapter 9 -- Smoking and mortality in women: ""smoke like a man, die (at least) like a man"" -- Chapter 10 -- The role of household exposures in lung disease among women -- Chapter 11 -- Occupational lung disease in women -- Chapter 12 -- Women and lung cancer: potential mechanisms of greater susceptibility to tobacco smoke -- Chapter 13 -- Tuberculosis in women -- Chapter 14 -- Women and interstitial lung diseases -- Chapter 15 -- Women: lung and autoimmune disease -- Chapter 16 -- Women and sleep-related disorders |
| Summary |
Present day insights into the relationship between gender and health emphasise the necessity of taking sex and gender differences into consideration. Sex refers to biological characteristics such as chromosomes, physiology and anatomy that distinguish females and males. Gender refers to the array of socially constructed roles and relationships, personality traits, attitudes, behaviours and values that society ascribes to the two sexes on a differential basis. In health-related research both sex differences and differences resulting from gender are implied. Sex can determine differential propen |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mapp, CE
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| ISBN |
1904097952 |
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9781904097952 |
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