Gender-sensitive mental health care.
OBJECTIVE
The aim of this paper is to examine aspects of mental health and mental health care through a gender lens.


CONCLUSIONS
Gender differences have an impact on mental health and the experience and course of women's mental illness. Comprehensive gender-sensitive mental health care requires the planning, delivery, monitoring and quality improvement initiatives of mental health care to be informed by a knowledge and understanding of gender differences in women and men and their inter-relationship with respect to childhood and adult life experiences (e.g. violence and abuse); day-to-day social, cultural, and family realities; expression and experience of mental ill health and treatment needs and responses.
Judd
Fiona
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Centre for Women's Mental Health, Royal Women's Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia. Fiona.judd@thewomens.org.au
Armstrong
Sue
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Kulkarni
Jayashri
J
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