出版社：Norsk forening for epidemiologi - The Norwegian Epidemiological Association
摘要：In this chapter, we will discuss selected aspects of the impact of women’s movement on the developmentof modern epidemiology in Norway based on the experiences of leading a research program in Women’sHealth (RPWH, 1991-96) aimed at mapping and assessing gender based public health research in Norway,and the establishment in 1997 of a research group in Women’s Health at the Department of Public Healthand General Practice, NTNU. During the 1990s, several steps were taken both internationally as well asnationally to ensure that diseases which were affecting men and women unequally were given adequateattention. Examples of such diseases include osteoporosis and hip fractures. Studies of diseases seen as atypically men’s, such as coronary heart disease, were often conducted exclusively on men. The inclusionand separate analysis based on gender, and the establishment of special cohorts of women, yielded a morecomplex understanding. Further the gender perspective revealed gendered patterns of risks. Traditionallyrisks such as cigarette smoking were shown to have a differential effect dependent on gender. Perinatalepidemiology, traditionally used to assess outcomes related to the new-born, were expanded to also assessimpact of pregnancy on women themselves during and after childbirth. Disorders such as pelvic pain,urinary and anal incontinence as well as fear of pregnancy and depression during and after childbirth cameto the attention of researchers. New risks were uncovered as women started to disclose the experience ofviolence and abuse both as adult and when growing up.
