GENDER SENSITIVITY TO MEDICINE AND HEALTH

Abstract

Health textbooks include sections such as “incidence of women  and children” and subsections “incidence of female population”. Women give birth to children in medical institutions, and in the USSR, attention has always been paid to protecting the health of “mother and child” (Okhranmlad), and in the national project “Health” of the 2010s. special measures were developed to improve medical care for women during pregnancy and childbirth. However, with regard to health in general, society, medicine, and researchers have long remained gender-insensitive. This article provides examples of gender-related interactions between the doctor and the patient and the patient's social role, in which situations and contexts the gender dimension of interactions becomes significant.