Health and Care: An Essay on Biological and Social Processes in Gender Development

HEALTH AND
CARE: AN ESSAY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCUSION..................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In health and care, the term ‘biological processes' are the important procedures which
happens in a living organism to live. In this process, it consists number of chemical reactions or
various circumstances which leads to a process called transformation. Whereas, the term 'social
process' is a pattern of social interactivity that in turn has a changing effect on society over a
period of time. These processes are an essential part of society as it gives shape to a society.
Moreover, it may impact on individual’s health and social care. In health and care, social
activities may include gender as it refers to the characteristics of male and female that are
constructed socially (Bailen and et. al., 2019). Gender as a social construct may stretch from
society to society and may change over time. Biological processes may impact a society as these
activities are generally determined by environmental, cultural as well as social factors. In health
and care, social as well as biological factors are raised to explain sex and gender. In perspective
with social processes, it tends to express the value of social relationships, behaviours related to
health as well as factors in accounting for sex differences in survival. In perspective with
biological processes, models explain the role of biological markers, genetics and hormones on
health outcomes (Cascio and et. al., 2021).
MAIN BODY
In health and care, a sex and gender are the two different concepts that may frequently use
interchangeably. As in this, the government of United Kingdom refers the term 'gender' as this is
a social concept and the term 'sex' as a biological concept. According to social construct, it is an
intrinsic awareness of self that is whether an individual sees themselves as a woman or a man as
well as other gender recognition.
The definition of Sex and gender are not same as sex refers to a biological categorization
which is based on reproductive potential whereas, the term gender involves the social elaboration
which involves the biological sex. Moreover, the term gender is used to explain the attributes of
men and women that are created socially. In other words, gender builds on biological sex as it
elaborates biological differences and also carries biological differences into domains in which
they are completely irrelevant. There is no specific understanding that for example, why men
should be swagger and women should be mince. While thinking gender as social and sex as
biological, this distinction is not clear. It is because people tend to think of sex as a result of