Depression in women
“Life is full of ups and downs, but when you feel sad, empty, or hopeless most of the time for at least 2 weeks or those feelings keep you from your regular activities, you may have depression. Depression is a serious mental health condition. In the past year, women were almost twice as likely as men to have symptoms of depression.1 Depression is not a normal part of being a woman. Most women, even those with the most severe depression, can get better with treatment” (womenshealth.gov).
Depression is one of the health problems that most affect women.
Intersectionality
Intersectionality affects the fact that women cannot have access to a good education and puts the responsibility of many social roles on their shoulders, all of which cause stress and depression.
Major determinants of health include access to economic resources such as education and adequate incomes and social resources such as supportive and safe communities (Levins & Lopez, 1999; McKeown & Brown, 1976)
“Discrimination against women deprives them of education and livelihood opportunities, leaving them more likely than men to be poor and illiterate.”
social movements, organizations currently address it
-https://www.womenshealth.gov/mental-health
-www.nami.org/home - NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness
Where are the gaps?
Based on Zoller's 2010 article, Communicating Women's Health Activism: A Social Justice Agenda, we can realize that a very important point is that more work should be done to change women's environments and economy in order to prevent all these diseases, since if women have better education, they have greater access to health and their roles in society change, Empowerment helps women to improve their quality of life.
Red dress and pink ribbon campaigns follow this medicalized prevention model by locating the source of cures for breast cancer and heart disease with pharmaceutical and medical interventions, rather than addressing environmental and economic changes as a route to prevent disease (Klawiter, 2002) Pg.74
6.The effects of inequality education in women’s health