Establish a proper qualitative approach for exploring the psychological impact of female figure representations in healthcare information on the parties

Oya-Haragi, Makiko
Added: Apr 23, 2025
B680 S215 S265 health

Abstract

This study focuses on the public health issue that Medical Illustrations (MIs) of "white male-centred Human Figure Representations" (This project named these "The Default-Representation: DER") used in medical education and healthcare lead to inequalities in the quality of healthcare provision for women and to explore their impact that whether the DER-MIs would affect the construction of the hidden gender inequality in society. MIs, especially adapted DER (DER-MIs), are not only used in the medical field, but patients and the general public utilise and reproduce these representations via the internet and other media in society. Then, the people who are less represented, women, would have to go through negative feelings of invisibility, exclusion, and oppression through being exposed to the DER-MIs. Then, this study will compare the psychological effects and impressions between DER-MIs and oppose their representation: Diverse Representations (DIRs-MIs: focus on women's representations).

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