Gender differences in Schizophrenia: A multicentric study from three Latin-America countries

The World Health Organization has been reporting the need for equity and justice in the distribution of resources within the mental health sector especially for vulnerable groups, such as women, indigenous and ethnic minorities (WHO,  2003). Schizophrenia (SZ) has an incidence sex ratio of 1,4, being more prevalent in men (Kraepelin, 1971; Leung and Chue, 2000; Falkenburg and Tracy, 2014). SZ women have been described to have a later age at illness onset, a lower illness severity and better global, functional and cognitive prog nosis associated with a better quality of life, life satisfaction and cooperativeness (Räsänen et al., 2000; Riecher-Rossler et al., 2010; Falkenburg and Tracy, 2014; Navarro et al., 1996; Seeman, 1986; Salokangas, 1983; Goldstein, 1988).
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