Women & Health Review: Sex differentials in health and mortality

Women and Health

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 103-145

  Verbrugge, Lois M ^a   Wingard, Deborah L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS--MEN; AGE FACTORS--WOMEN; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; CAUSES OF DEATH; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH RATE--MEN; DEATH RATE--WOMEN; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASES; FEMALE; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HUMAN; LENGTH OF LIFE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORBIDITY; MORBIDITY--MEN; MORBIDITY--WOMEN; MORTALITY; MORTALITY--MEN; MORTALITY--WOMEN; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

AGE FACTORS--MEN; AGE FACTORS--WOMEN; AMERICAS; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY; CAUSES OF DEATH; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH RATE--MEN; DEATH RATE--WOMEN; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; LENGTH OF LIFE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEASUREMENT; MORBIDITY--MEN; MORBIDITY--WOMEN; MORTALITY--MEN; MORTALITY--WOMEN; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SEX RATIO; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0023465080     PISSN: 03630242     EISSN: 15410331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J013v12n02_07     Document Type: Article

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