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A recent survey shows that more women that men are dissatisfied with the University Health Services (UHS).
The survey, supervised last Spring by Stanley H. King, director of Research to the UHS, is the first comprehensive study on student reaction to the health services. It covered a 10 percent random sample of the undergraduate student body. Of the 512 respondents, 23 per cent were women.
"The thing that interested me the most is the question of satisfaction with UHS, especially the difference between men and women. Women seem to be less satisfied with us." King, who is also a clinical psychologist at the UHS, said last week.
Although the survey showed that 56 per cent of all respondents were satisfied with the treatment at the UHS, 24 per cent of the women had "negative reactions" as compared with only 11 per cent of the men.
He emphasized the importance of preventive medicine and mentioned the possibilities of UHS's "disseminating the facts about cigarettes," educating the Harvard community about the use of seatbelts, and undertaking massive screening efforts to uncover specific diseases such as diabetes.