Patient preference for genders of health professionals

• Published in: Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 44; no. 10; pp. 1531 - 1540
• Main Authors: Kerssens, Jan J., Bensing, Jozien M., Andela, Margriet G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.05.1997; Elsevier; Pergamon Press Inc
• Series: Social Science & Medicine
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Choice Behavior; Communication; Consumer Behavior; Female; Gender; Gynecology; Health Care; Health participants; Health professionals; health professions; Humans; Male; Medical personnel; Medical sciences; Netherlands; Opinion; patient preference; patient preference gender health professions; Patients; Physician-Patient Relations; Physician-patient relationship; Physicians; Practitioner Patient Relationship; Preferences; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Sex; Sex Differences; Sexes; Stereotyping; Womens Health Care; Netherlands; Europe; patient preference; gender; health professions; Human; Medicine; Survey; Nursing; Attitude; Health staff; Preference; Sex; Patient; Obstetrics; Psychiatry; Public health

Preferences for physicians' gender is an obvious and well documented example of considerations of patients' attitudes. But research carried out in this field is rather limited to the domain of family medicine. This article describes preferences for 13 different health professions: surgeons...