UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday,April 2,1993
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Attitude change needed
Conference focuses on issues in medical care for women
By Terrilyn McCormick Kansan staff writer
During that week she died of a heart attack.
A woman displaying all the signs of heart disease was misdiagnosed several times by different doctors. Finally, her doctor said it was premenstrual syndrome and sent her to a gynecologist, who ran tests on her and told her to come back in a week.
David Kotz / KANSAN
During the study, said Cheryl Travis, professor of psychology at the University of Tennessee, illustrated the inequalities in women's health care.
travis spoke yesterday at a conference on women's health, which focused on current ideas about the emotional and physical health of women. The conference continues through Saturday and is being held at the Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive.
women exactly the same."
"Feminism helped doctors realize that women are not one homogenized group," she said. "They realized that each woman has a different body and problems."
Hobsonle, 2004 in Donald Hobson. But now, the inequality in care is finally being recognized, and money is being donated for research on women's health, said Annette Stanton, professor of psychology at University of Kansas and co-coordinator of the conference.
Carol Tavris, author of "The Mismeasure of Woman," said that the fact that an article on mammograms had appeared on the front page of the New York Times showed that women's health finally had become an issue the medical field was willing to recognize.
I feel the change was willing to accept. The change in the attitude toward women's health has feminism to thank, said Travis, the University of Tennessee professor. Traditionally, women were lumped together in a group and the medical field treated every woman exactly the same.
However, Travis said that three areas of women's health still needed national attention: protection, promotion and prevention.
prevention.
Women need protection in the workplace. Travis said.
Occupational injuries occur the most in restaurants, grocery stores and hospitals, areas where women are a large
Carol Tavris, the author of "The Mismeasure of Woman," says women with similar health problems do not necessarily need the same treatments. Tavris addressed inequalities in women's health care to approximately 300 people yesterday at a woman's health conference at the Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 McDonald Drive.
part of the work force.
Health promotion issues included the medical field recognizing violence and abusive behavior as a national medical problem, Travis said.
ical problem, Havis said.
"The threat of physical violence influences all of our lives," she said. "We may not be aware of it, but the subtle effect is real."
either.
Prevention was the one area that Travis said she thought real work could be realistically accomplished.
She said that AIDS was spreading faster in minority women than white women. Finding out what lifestyle actions cause this inequality and educating minority women about them is a way to prevent the spread of AIDS.
The women's health conference is sponsored by the clinical psychology training program of the University's psychology department. Three hundred psychologists and health-care providers from all over the United States are attending the conference.
Stakes on game set on Capitol Hill
Film developing at great rates at the KU Bookstores Kansas and Burge Unions, Level Two
Meyers, whose two children, Valerie and Philin, are both KU gradu-
ates, is the representative for Lawrence.
lawrence "Not only is it my privilege to represent the NCAA, which is headquartered in my hometown of Overland Park, but I am also honored to represent the University of Kansas, the Kansas Yayahawk basketball team, and KU coach Roy Williams," she said.
Meyers has wagered eight steaks from Kansas as her part of the bet, and Price has put up barbecue food from North Carolina as his end of the deal.
Meyer was confident she would win the bet.
"Naturally, I fully expect to collect the North Carolina barbecue which Mr. Price has so generously wagered," she said. "As much as I would like to promote Kansas beef in North Carolina, it is my hope that Mr. Price will have to settle for the mouthwatering thought of eight Kansas steaks."
Price countered Meyers' statement with one of his own.
"I don't want to sound to overconfident," Price said. "After all, the 'steaks' are very high in this one."
By Jess DeHaven
Meyers said she planned to send Price steals from Lawrence's Harwood's Wholesale Meats and Frozen Foods, 3103 Iowa St., if she lost the bet.
Meyers said she had complete faith in the Jayhawks.
In Washington, D.C., betting on the Final Four goes beyond the simple office pool.
"I fail to see how they can lose," she said. "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk, KU!"
U. S. Rep. Jan Meyers, R-3rd District, is beeping up a friendly bet with her colleague U.S. Rep. David Price, D.N.C., on the outcome of tomorrow's Kansas-North Carolina NCAA tournament semifinal game.
Kansan staff writer
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