Evolution of the social meaning of menopause in Cuban society during decade 2014-2023

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Menopause, climacteric, gender, women's health, middle age

Abstract

Introduction: The meaning of menopause in history has depended on the characteristics of society. In the second half of the 20th century, social changes occurred with divergent impacts on the lives of climacteric women.
Objective: To analyze the evolution of the social meaning of menopause in the history of Cuban society in the decade 2014-2023.
Meaning of menopause in history: Cuban and foreign works published before our era to the present were reviewed, which allowed the social approach to menopause to be described over time.
Menopause, meaning from the woman's body: The social characteristics of women's menopause in different contexts over time are described from the perception and identification of symptoms and signs.
Women and climacteric in the history of Cuban society. Decade 2014-2023: The Cuban woman is socially characterized in the climacteric stage integrated to the biopsychosocial approach of Cuban medicine, their perceptions at this stage of life, symptoms and signs, with an aside from the period in which Cuba suffered from COVID-19.
Conclusions: The evolution of the social meaning of menopause in Cuban society during the decade 2014-2023 was influenced by socio-economic factors that modified the labor insertion of women from the menopause and influenced the perception and expression of clinical manifestations during the menopause that made it difficult to seek help to improve their health, although there were limitations to their full development.

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Daysi Navarro Despaigne, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de la Habana, Facultad de Ciencias Mèdicas "Manuel Fajardo". Instituto de Endrocrinología

Profesora Titular y Consultante. Académica de la ACC. Especialista de II Grado en Endocrinología. POresidenta del Consejo Científico del INEN.

Lourdes Bárbara Alpizar Caballero, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de la Habana, Facultad de Ciencias Mèdicas "Manuel Fajardo". Instituto de Endrocrinología

Metodóloga del Departamento de Investigaciones de la Facultad. Dr C. Pedagógicas. Profesor Titular. Especailista II Grado Pediatría. Investigadora Auxiliar. Máster en Educación Médica. Revisora de las Revistas Cuabanas de Medicina Militar, de Angiología y Cirugía vascular y Archivo del Hospital Universitario. Miembro de la Sociedad Cubana de Pediatría y de la Sociedad de Educadores en Ciencias de la Salud (SOCECS). Miembro del Comité Editorial de la Revista Archivo del Hospital Universitario "General Calixto García"

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2024-07-19

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Navarro Despaigne D, Alpizar Caballero LB. Evolution of the social meaning of menopause in Cuban society during decade 2014-2023. Arch Hosp Univ "Gen Calixto García” [Internet]. 2024 Jul. 19 [cited 2025 Feb. 23];12(2). Available from: https://revcalixto.sld.cu/index.php/ahcg/article/view/e1237

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