Anxiety disorders, phobias and major depressions are more common in women than men according to a report from the Office on Women's Health. And while it has long been said that schizophrenia was a male disease, the rates are actually fairly close (1.26 percent for males compared to 1.0 percent for women), in comparison to PTSD, which appears to be twice as common in women and prevalent in women vets. The findings are part of a more intense effort to understand differences based on gender, race and ethnicity, and to build recovery models based on the 1999 Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health (1999), and urged by the President's New Freedom Commission (2004). A second report about roadblocks women encounter obtaining health care looks at employment. Prevailing work patterns -- less pay, fewer hours, age of partner -- means they have less insurance protection, and wide variations in purchasing individual coverage means about 40 percent have no insurance coverage at all.
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