'Health is not a man's domain': Lay accounts of gender difference in life-expectancy in Russia

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1070-1085

  Pietilä, Ilkka ^a   Rytkönen, Marja ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Gender; Health related behaviour; Lay accounts; Life expectancy; Russia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUSSIA; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55849152485     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01106.x     Document Type: Article

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