Calidad de vida en el climaterioacercamiento al estudio de la salud integral y la conformidad con normas de género femeninas

Résumé

The menopause in women is a variable period in which a series of physical, psychological and social changes occur. Many investigations have tried the climacteric theme, but few of them do it with gender mainstreaming, where the woman is the center of the study and the data provided by this woman are evaluated critically according to feminist theory. The quality of life has always bothered people and especially when you consider that this can be lost. This loss, in the case of climacteric women, seems to be associated to different factors, among which it can be highlighted own aging, and not only to the hormonal changes. Health is a goal that is in the minds of the vast majority of people, but what one understand as health does not have to coincide collectively. Opting to reach global or integrated health is one of the premises of health care services nowadays. Females have traditionally drawn the cultural imperative that requires them to adapt to female social norms the Group gets for them. So women should be submissive, friendly, caretaker of the household and children or staying slender, among other mandates. There are no legal rules administering punishment to women who do not carry out these rules, but the price out of the norm can be the loss of one's health in the physical, psychological or social sphere, so that failure to comply with what is expected of a woman always carries a price...