ARTICLE ANALYSIS

Article Analysis

Article Analysis

Article# 1: Men's health in the Region of the Americas

The analysis of mortality, morbidity and other traditional indicators of health of men and women in most countries of the Americas indicates a "male disadvantage" that is not related to the time the data were obtained. There are clear differences between the sexes in the sense that men have shorter life expectancies and higher mortality rates in almost all ages and all causes. However, the morbidity, measured by the demand for services and population studies on the increased incidence of acute episodes of illness, number of hospitalizations and duration of convalescence, indicating a higher frequency in women.

While there is no doubt that some of the differences in mortality are due to biological factors, there are certain gender-specific behaviors governed by cultural and social factors that affect their health. Today the term sex (male or female) refers to the natural biological condition governed by laws of genetics that determine a body anatomy and physiology specific, whereas the term gender (male or female) refers to a social construction that has been assigned defined roles for each sex throughout the historical evolution of humanity.

The individual life span (longevity) as a specific feature of the human species has not changed over time, but the average life expectancy of the population is increasing due to the decrease in mortality at younger ages in both men and women. However, the proportion of long-lived in the male population is less than women in virtually all countries of the Americas. (Philip & Karen, 2010)

In most developed countries from the standpoint of social, economic and public health, such as Canada and the United States, a higher percentage of elderly people in developing countries and a more pronounced difference between the sexes. The comparison of the mortality of men and women at different ages from the biological point of view, as opposed to social or behavioral, is not simple if done in isolation.

Article # 2: Evidence-based medicine

Evidence-based medicine is an emerging discipline from clinical epidemiology; medical field is the development of a new trend. Evidence-Based Practice Evidence-based medicine is the medical process. Its core idea is: medical decision-making and clinical evaluation should be careful, accurate and intelligent application of the best evidence that can be used as the basis, the evidence requirements are comprehensive. Specifically, the application of evidence-based medicine requires a lot of material available for evaluation of secondary literature, collect, organize and conduct systematic reviews of such material to produce the most reliable clinical evidence of the practice, according to new evidence to guide clinical practice, the existing Clinical diagnosis and treatment methods to adjust.

Evidence-Based Medicine and Clinical Evaluation of Traditional Chinese Medicine concept of evidence-based medicine caused the emergence of the concept of medical practice patterns and the great change. Systematic review, makes people realize that long-term, widely used in clinical treatment is not always effective, and some of the effective theory, and in fact invalid or therapeutic measures may be more ...