01458nas a2200169   4500000000100000008004100001260001600042100001500058700001600073245006200089856005100151300001000202490000700212050001800219520103700237022001401274       1998                            d  c1998 Apr 301 aOliveira M1 aRomanelli G00a[The effects of Leprosy on men and women: a gender study]  uhttp://www.scielosp.org/pdf/csp/v14n1/0125.pdf  a51-600 v14  aOLIVEIRA 19983 a<p>On the basis of social representations, we detected gender differences in family and individual living experiences for people with Hansen's disease (HD, or leprosy) in a sample of 202 HD patients (132 men and 70 women) enrolled in a public treatment and control program in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo State. Information was gathered in two stages. First, the HD patients responded to a structured questionnaire, and second, the authors heard reports from 10 men and 10 women on their daily living situations. Data indicated that the disease receives different representations by men as compared to women in the different social groups. HD was found to be a source of gender imbalance, further aggravating existing sociocultural inequalities and creating new sources of biopsychosocial and economic harm, in addition to the stigmata weighing on individual patients. Results should help reorient treatment and control programs aimed at the social rehabilitation of HD patients, besides serving as a paradigm for future research</p>  a1678-4464