Women pop to the doctor more often than men ’because they really are the sicker sex’ 女人比男人更常看醫生「因她們真的較常生病」

Women pop to the doctor more often than men ’because they really are the sicker sex’
女人比男人更常看醫生「因她們真的較常生病」
2012-01-16◎管淑平

It is common knowledge that women dash to the doctor when they fall ill while men drag their feet. But this assumption has been undermined by a study. Scientists led by Davide Malmusi, of the Public Health Agency of Barcelona, found that women may report more illnesses because they actually are sick more often.
女人生病時會急著去找醫生，而男人總是拖拖拉拉，這是普遍的認知，但是一份研究削弱了這種想法。馬穆西率領巴塞隆納公共健康局的科學家發現，女人或許較常掛病號，是因為她們的確比較常生病。

This disproved the theory women tend to over-report health problems or pay more attention to their symptoms than men. "The poorer self-rated health of women is a reflection of the higher burden of disease they suffer", they said.
這反駁了女人比男人還容易誇大健康問題、或者更注意她們症狀的說法。「女人自認健康狀況不好，反映她們承受較高疾病風險」，他們說。

The researchers looked at data from Spain’s 2006 National Health Survey, which included interviews with 29,000 people who covered a wide age-range on how they rated their health.
研究人員分析西班牙2006年全國健康調查資料，其中訪問2萬9000名、包含廣泛年齡層的民眾自我評估健康狀況。

They found 38.8 percent of women said their health was poor or very poor with 25.7 percent saying a chronic condition limited their activity. This compared to 27 percent of men who said they had poor health and 19.3 percent reporting a chronic condition.
他們發現，38.8％的婦女說她們健康狀況差、或非常差，25.7％說慢性病限制了她們的活動。相較之下，男性有27％自認健康差，19.3％有慢性病。

However, women were no more likely than men to claim to have poorer health than men when they had the same condition. Women were actually more likely to report better health than men when they had the same number of conditions.
然而，男女都有同樣疾病時，女人不比男人更容易自稱健康差。當男女罹患同樣數量的慢性病，女人其實比男人更可能說自己身體好。

新聞辭典

dash：動詞，衝向，猛撞，突然採取的動作，潑濺。例句：Sorry, but I must dash because I’m going to be late.（不好意思，我得趕快走了，因為我快遲到了。）

drag one’s feet：動詞片語，故意拖延、拖拖拉拉。例句：The boy always drags his feet when doing his homework.（這孩子做功課時，老是拖拖拉拉。）

disprove：動詞，反駁。例句：The evidence has disproved what you’ve said.（證據已經反駁了你的說法。）