The Perception of the Menopause and Climacteric among Women in Hong Kong and Southern China

• Main Authors: Haines, C. J., Rong, L., Chung, T. K. H., Leung, Denis H. Y.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1995
• Subjects: Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/128
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A lack of awareness of the long-term consequences of the menopause may be a major contributing factor to the low demand for hormone replacement therapy in Hong Kong and China. Most Chinese women suffer few acute menopausal symptoms, and it was our hypothesis that they had little knowledge of the ris...