Notes:
This e-learning modules includes a case study, historical perspective, epidemiology, assessment options and literature review on smoking and society to help you:
1) Compare the epidemiology of lung cancer among men and women and identify gender influences 2)Describe the social (gender) and the biological (sex) factors influencing lung cancer 3) Explain sex and gender differences for risk, prevention, screening, presentation, prognosis and treatment of lung cancer, 4) Describe the gender differences in smoking behaviour and exposure 5)Describe possible gender differences in the illness experience of lung cancer 6) Propose a gender sensitive approach to lung cancer prevention 7) Describe global trends in smoking and lung cancer and identify factors influencing these trends 8)Explain the history of smoking and the tobacco industry and how gender has been used in marketing
