Health Status and Gender

The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 97-112

  Annandale, Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Changes in life expectancy in Eastern Europe increasing the gap; Changes in life expectancy in the West reducing the gap; Changing roles of women and liberalisation of norms decreasing gender differences in mortality; Circulatory disease, heart disease, stroke and cancer; Complexity of gender inequality, longevity and health; Complexity of gender related social change and health and illness relationship; From "women's health" to "gender and health"; Health status and gender; Hegemonic masculinity and risks to men's health and premature death; Male female longevity differentials

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873964099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314786.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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