Gender and health: an update on hypotheses and evidence.
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Summary
The paper organizes the hypotheses proposed for male-female differences in physical health status, therapeutic health behaviors, and longevity and it summarizes empirical research, especially sociological research, on the topic over the past 10-15 years.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 1985-09-01
- Cited by
- 1,303
- References
- 70
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- https://openalex.org/W1972912763
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Keywords
Psychosocial, Gerontology, Psychology, Medicine, Health care
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- Reversals of fortune? Sex differences in health in childhood and adolescence.
- Gender bias in the measurement properties of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D).
- Eating habits, food and health related attitudes and beliefs reported by French students
- Self-care responses to illness of patients with various cancer diagnoses.
- Older men's health. Sociocultural and ecological perspectives.
- Socioeconomic and environmental covariates of premature mortality in Ontario.
- The symptom experience of women with chronic illness.
- Does class matter? SES and psychosocial health among Hungarian adolescents.
- Female labour force activity and the sex differential in mortality: Comparisons across developed nations, 1950–1980
- Relations of caregiving stress and health depend on the health indicators used and gender
- Influence of macrosocial policies on women's health and gender inequalities in health.
- Women's subjective and objective health over time : the role of psychosocial conditions and physiological stress responses.
- Diabetes Health and Disability Pathways: Racial/Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Gender Disparities
- Sex Differences in Clinical Pain: A Multisample Study
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