Abstract

TAJER, Débora. Women and coronary heart disease: Gender and subjectivity in coronary heart risk in young women. Anu. investig. [online]. 2006, vol.13, pp.239-248. ISSN 1851-1686.

This work aims to identify how gender subjetivation process in women with coronary heart disease, can collaborate in understanding women's particular risk in this disease. Has a critical point of view related to the explanation of young women less incidence linked to biological factors, expanding the framework to a more comprenhensive point of view. By the same token, this framework considers the health-disease-care process of a person produced by biological, phychological and social determinants. The specific collaboration of this work consists in focusing on the psychosocial approach to the conformation of women gender subjetivation in orden to understand this part of women's own way of getting in risk. Taking in account that former studies had understood it as a "masculinization" process of the affected population or an increased of biological risk factors in the cause, more than and increase of women's particular psychosocial risk factors.

Keywords : Psychosocial risk factors; Women; Gender; Coronary heart disease.

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