One of the determinants of health is gender. Gender can impact our health due to various attitudes, behaviours, values and relative power that society gives to the two genders. Many health issues are a function of gender-based social status or roles.
Women and men have different health issues and can be impacted by the same issues in different ways. Heart disease, for example, affects men and women differently.
Some issues are gender specific. For example, cervical screening for women is an important tool to help detect cancer. For the Bonavista Peninsula (defined as from Chance Cove to Bonavista) the screening rate for 2009 was 30%. The
map of the Bonavista Peninsula shows that cervical screening rates in this area are low.
One person who is trying to address this issue is Dr. Roxanne Cooper who has converted a mobile trailer into a travelling Mobile Pap clinic. Check our her story in
NEXUS, the NL Medical Association's newsletter and join her
Facebook group where you can also see photos of the trailer (one photo pictured here).
Women and men have different health issues and can be impacted by the same issues in different ways. Heart disease, for example, affects men and women differently. 
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