Following up on what others have said, the articles do give a good context for answering, or at least, addressing the question of why we look at women's health. There are so many factors here at play, biological, social, physiological, that no model or framework seems to be comprehensive enough to take into account all that can influence the salient differences between the genders, where women live longer but have higher morbidity rates and a diminished quality of life later on.

Some points that I thought were interesting include that women's immune systems appear to put them at a greater risk of disorders in which their own immune system attacks their bodies, and that the the modal patient undergoing treatment for CVD and hypertension is likely to be a woman beyond middle age. Another theme that was emphasized included the impact of constrained choices and differential access to resources and opportunities, which occurs across SES and race as well as gender, and has cascading effects on a person's wellbeing, both psychologically and physically. But important to note was that the factor of gender cannot replace that of race or socioeconomic status, as they serve as measures of different phenomenon.