Abstract
The influence of gender on women's risk beliefs for heart attack. To inform healthcare providers how women's beliefs and attitudes contribute to treatment-seeking delay in the event of a heart attack, and to establish the importance of risk beliefs in women. Published literature in MEDLINE and CINAHL computerized databases, reference lists of obtained articles. Women's perceived risk beliefs for heart attack are influenced by the effects of media, cultural, and gender roles and the modeling of bias in health care. There is a need for healthcare providers to change their focus from acting on (etic) a patient to interacting within (emic) the belief systems of their patients to optimize positive outcomes.
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