Gender differences in illhealth in Finland: patterns, magnitude and change

Lahelma, Eero; Martikainen, Pekka; Rahkonen, Ossi; Silventoinen, Karri

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(98)00285-8

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“…By contrast, men were more affected by complete restrictions. Nevertheless, we cannot argue that women's illnesses were more frequent while being less severe 5,10,26 . We observed a higher prevalence of milder chronic conditions among women, such as asthma and chronic pain, but also hypertension, cancer, anxiety, and depression.…”

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Gender disparities in health and healthcare: results from the Portuguese National Health Interview Survey

2012

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Gender disparities in health and healthcare: results from the Portuguese National Health Interview Survey

2012

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“…Hence, the results of the present analysis, revealing a lack of homogeneity across countries, are in accordance with the findings of the aforementioned studies which also indicate divergent associations. Regarding gender, it has been consistently found that although females experience lower mortality they have higher morbidity rates than men (Lahelma et al 1999) and suffer more from depression (Prince et al 1999b;Verropoulou and Tsimbos 2007) and disabilities (Hsu 2005). The present study shows that when health status has been taken into account women report significantly better health than men in nearly all countries.…”

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Key elements composing self-rated health in older adults: a comparative study of 11 European countries

Verropoulou

2009

Eur J Ageing

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Self-rated health (SRH) is a multidimensional measure, predictive of morbidity and mortality. Comparative studies of determinants, however, are rare due to a lack of comparable cross-national data. This paper contributes towards filling in this gap, using data for persons aged 50 or higher in 11 European countries from the SHARE study (2004). The analysis aims at identifying key elements composing SRH using multinomial logistic regression models. In addition, the homogeneity of associations across populations is assessed. The findings indicate that education, depression, chronic conditions, mobility difficulties, somatic symptoms and levels of physical activity constitute important components of SRH; ADLs and obesity, on the other hand, are not significant and IADLs are important only in a few countries. All these associations point to the expected direction and are homogeneous across countries. However, demographic factors, age and gender, though significant in many countries have divergent associations. Effects of smoking also differentiate between southern and northern Europe.

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“…The literature on health and gender has long evidenced a striking paradox: women consistently report worse self-rated health than men while their probability of dying is lower than men's throughout their life -see Lahelma et al (1999) and Cambois et al (2011).…”

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Self-reported health and gender: The role of social norms

Caroli

Weber-Baghdiguian

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents inIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first replicate the standard result that women report worse health than men, whatever the health outcome we consider -i.e. general self-assessed health but also more specific symptoms such as skin problems, backache, muscular pain in upper and lower limbs, headache and eyestrain, stomach ache, respiratory difficulties, depression and anxiety, fatigue and insomnia. We then proxy social norms by the gender structure of the workplace environment and study how the latter affects self-reported health for men and women separately. Our findings indicate that individuals in workplaces where women are a majority tend to report worse health than individuals employed in male-dominated work environments, be they men or women. These results are robust to controlling for a large array of working condition indicators, which allows us to rule out that the poorer health status reported by individuals working in female-dominated environments could be due to worse job quality. We interpret this evidence as suggesting that social norms associated with specific gender environments play an important role in explaining differences in health-reporting behaviours across gender, at least in the workplace.JEL Classification: I12, I19, J16

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Gender differences in illhealth in Finland: patterns, magnitude and change

Cited by 111 publications

References 75 publications

Gender disparities in health and healthcare: results from the Portuguese National Health Interview Survey

Gender disparities in health and healthcare: results from the Portuguese National Health Interview Survey

Key elements composing self-rated health in older adults: a comparative study of 11 European countries

Self-reported health and gender: The role of social norms

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