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Health and Human Development - Environmental and inherited factors
affecting development and health
Other significant impacts of sex
Hormones control the timing and degree of change in the body. They are
one of your inherited characteristics.
There is now evidence to show that some of the genes that you inherit
may carry your predisposition to certain diseases.
Sex also has a significant impact on your share of resources in developing
and industrialised countries and this in turn can affect development. This
is discussed in more detail under environmental influences.
Ethnicity [1] may cause variations in body size and body shape and this
may influence timing of maturation. For example: smaller and finer body
sizes generally experience late maturation.
Research is showing that for some cancers there is a genetic link in many
reported cases. Cancer of the colon and rectum, or colorectal cancer is one
type of cancer where mass genetic screening may be useful in reducing the
incidence of the disease.
Family history is also seen as a risk factor for breast cancer.
Research into Alzheimer's disease has also shown that heredity plays an
important role into the incidence of this disease.
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Other significant impacts of sex Hormones control the timing and degree of change in the body. They are one of your inherited characteristics. There is now evidence to show that some of the genes that you inherit may carry your predisposition to certain diseases. Sex also has a significant impact on your share of resources in developing and industrialised countries and this in turn can affect development. This is discussed in more detail under environmental influences. Ethnicity [1] may cause variations in body size and body shape and this may influence timing of maturation. For example: smaller and finer body sizes generally experience late maturation. Research is showing that for some cancers there is a genetic link in many reported cases
Hormones control the timing and degree of changes in the body.
impact of gender hormone the control the timing and degree of change, your hormones have a particular influence at different stages in the lifespan. sex also has a influence of impact in development, hormonal change of growth in childhood of the start of adolescence and the rate of change in adolescence. ethnicity may cause different variation to the body.
Hormones control the timing and degree of change in the body. They are one of your inherited characteristics. Family history is also seen as a risk factor for breast cancer.
women generally live longer than men because of both biological and behavioral advantages - on average by six to eight years.[4] However, in certain regions around the world, such as in South Asia, China and Sub-Saharan Africa, these advantages are overshadowed by gender-based discrimination.[4] The discrimination stems from the fact that in many developing nations women and girls are generally perceived to be socially inferior. The patriarchal social structures of many of these places perpetuate the marginalization and oppression of women in the form of cultural norms and legal codes. As a result of this unequal social order, women are usually relegated into positions where they are not only more vulnerable to suffering from health problems, but also less able to have access and control over healthcare resources than men. For example, women living in areas with a patriarchal system are often less likely to receive tertiary education or to be employed in the paid labor market due to gender discrimination.[4] As a result, female life expectancy at birth and nutritional well-being, and immunity against communicable and non-communicable diseases, are often lower than those of men.