BACKGROUND: Women generally have longer life expectancy than men but have higher
levels of disability and morbidity. Few studies have identified factors that explain higher …

A number of theoretical approaches suggest that gender inequity may give rise to health
risks for men. This study undertook a multilevel analysis to ascertain if state-level measures …

Few studies have examined whether sex differences in mortality are associated with
different distributions of risk factors or result from the unique relationships between risk …

Background: Although many different factors have been identified to contribute to excess
male mortality, it is still unclear which path of the complex cause-effect chain is the decisive …

Background Historically, women have lower all-cause mortality than men. It is less
understood that sex differences have been converging, particularly among certain …

Both the popular and scientific literatures report that women live longer than men (22, 39, 45,
49, 53, 54, 64, 76, 79, 83, 94, 98, 106, 110, 114, 119, 125), but also report more illness than …

Empirical research has shown that being male is the most consistent predictor of mortality at
all ages in all countries of the world (Barford et al. 2006). A female survival advantage was …

Women on average live longer than men–this has been known since more than two
centuries, and at least since the mid eighteenth century when Struyck (1740) and …

Over the past few decades, many academic centers, institutions, and hospitals developed
centers addressing womenʼs health with the goal of improving the quality of health for …

Health statistics routinely show higher morbidity and health services use for women, while
mortality rates are higher for men. This analysis empirically identifies reasons for women's …