Dear comunity 2015-12-13 8:20 GMT-05:00 Marc Murray <murr...@moh.gov.jm>:
> Dear Luis, > > On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 12:23 +0000, Luis Falcon wrote: > > Let's not confuse the physical sex with legal or gender. This > issue has been brought up several times already, and I will change the > term "sex" for "gender" in the person (party) model. > > > Whatever you do, please don't change sex to gender. They are very > different concepts and sex is what we care about in health. [1] > Before doing an answer I have asked to two health professional about the sex and told me that, for medical reason is *strongly important*, no sexual choise, phisical sex is strongly important, since the phisical sexuality is important information for manage healt, if the patient will be a part of a surgery, phisicla sex is really strongly important, is no the same manage drugs to a male or female body. If the health would be realted to any kind ( no health and body ) sex wouldnt be important. Finally, a person who change his sex, also must provide this information for historial, since it must be considered for health professionals. I hope do my small contrinution to the thread > > On Sun, 2015-12-13 at 08:55 +0000, Cédric Krier wrote: > > The boolean proposal is semantically the same as mine to add a new option > "Unknown" except that my solution doesn't add an extra field which should > be > tested all over the code before using the sex field. > > And I agree with what Cedric said here. > > > -- > Marc > > [1] > http://www.amamanualofstyle.com/view/10.1093/jama/9780195176339.001.0001/med-9780195176339-div2-350 > > -- Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto Senior Software Analyst Developer Claro RPC +51983265994 | MOV RPM( # ) +51 966110066 GTalk: carlos.sotelo.pi...@gmail.com | Skype: csotelop GNULinux RU #379182 | GNULinux RM #277661 No availability between 08:30 and 18:00, I will answer as soon as posible Please consider the environment before printing this email Join the campaign at http://thinkBeforePrinting.org
