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KMID : 0892720140180010054
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Journal of the Korean Society of Maternal and Child Health
2014 Volume.18 No. 1 p.54 ~ p.59
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Women, Environment, and Health
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Park Eun-Kyo
Kim Kyu-Yeon
Ha Eun-Hee
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Abstract
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There are a growing number of reports discussing the harmful effects of environment pollutants, as food, air, and water aggravation; soil pollution; and ozone layer depletion are becoming their main sources all of which result in negative health effects. Moreover, a higher amount of fat tissue, weight gain and loss, and physiological changes caused by conditions such as pregnancy, breast feeding, and menopause leave women more vulnerable to environment pollutants. However, medical science and related fields routinely consider a 70 kilogram Caucasian man as the standard body type and consider that women are no different from men except the breast and uterus. Genderspecific medicine completely opposes this concept. It suggests that women are different from men not only due to the genital organs but for the whole body system, and these differences should be clinically considered. Therefore, this study is designed to review the health effects of the environment to women based on gender-specific perspectives. According to previous studies, endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), heavy metals, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) cause harm to the woman’s body, including reproductive toxicity and carcinogenic action. Even making minor changes to the living environment is expected to reduce the exposure of harmful pollutants.
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KEYWORD
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women, environment, health, gender-specific perspectives
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