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Kailee Champigny

Critical Reading 2

Summary:

The article Gender Disparities in the Quality of Cardiovascular Disease Care in Private
Managed Care Plans, speaks on gender bias in the healthcare system. The article discussed
gender bias through conducting a case study to find out the true facts on what's really going on.
Instead of using the word bias they use disparities because it applies more to the health care.
The study consisted of looking at seven different Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) indicators that
were from the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS). Cardiovascular
Disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of death in the United States among all sexes, male
or female. The ultimate goal of this study is to figure out if gender bias plays a role in the quality
of CVD care given in the healthcare system today, and if so how much of an impact it has. This
study does not only focus on the hospital CVD care plan but also the smaller national CVD care
plans. Once the study was completed, it concluded that women are less likely than men to have
low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol maintained below 100 mg/dL. There was a lower rate
of LDL control in women, showing that there is a possibility of less intensive cholesterol
treatment in women. The study also showed that men are pushed at a higher rate than women
to get CVD tests done, such as women are less likely to undergo any cardiac procedures. The
sad thing is that for women that are diagnosed with CVD, they are known to have much worse
prognosis than men.

Re-summary:

The article Gender Disparities in the Quality of Cardiovascular Disease Care in Private
Managed Care Plans, speaks on gender bias in the healthcare system. It discussed gender bias
through conducting a case study to find out the true facts on what's really going on. The study
looking at Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) indicators that were from the Healthcare Effectiveness
Data and Information Set. The goal is to figure out if gender bias plays a role in the quality of
CVD care in healthcare. The studys results of that women are not enforced as much as men to
get CVD test done.

Rhetorical analysis:

Gender Disparities in the Quality of Cardiovascular Disease Care in Private Managed Care
Plans, is an article that is taken out of the overall book, Womens Health Issues. This article
consists of a variety of different authors input. All of the authors for this article are all scholars,
known by the PhD and MPH behind the authors names. Knowing that the authors are scholars
makes the article seem reliable. The article speaks on the study that was performed to answer
the question of, if gender disparities play apart in the quality of CVD care existing in the small
and large healthcare system population. The authors reasoning for the push for this study is
that they feel that women diagnosed with cardiovascular disease (CVD), are screened and
pushed less than men to get treated. Women are less likely to undergo cardiac procedures,
unlike men. The article included charts and tables of the methods that were used in the study.
This give the reader a visual to look at to know exactly what the authors mean when they talk
about the methods taken. This also gets the audience more engaged in the article. The article
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follows through the study from beginning to end. By the end of the study the authors feel that
the CVD care documented is supported by the HEDIS results, showing that there needs to be a
way to track quality of care dealing with gender. The authors also agree that women should be
more educated on CVD and its risks, so that they will seek out to get the CVD care they need.

Reference:

Chou, A. F., Scholle, S. H., Weisman, C. S., Bierman, A. S., Correa-de-Araujo, R., & Mosca, L.
(2007). Gender Disparities in the Quality of Cardiovascular Disease Care in Private Managed
Care Plans. Women's Health Issues, 17(3), 120-130. doi:10.1016/j.whi.2007.03.002

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