The weaker sex? Vulnerable men and women’s resilience to socio-economic disadvantage
| العنوان: | The weaker sex? Vulnerable men and women’s resilience to socio-economic disadvantage |
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| المؤلفون: | Karen Eggleston, Victor R. Fuchs, Pooja Loftus, Michael Baiocchi, Mark R. Cullen |
| المصدر: | SSM: Population Health, Vol 2, Iss, Pp 512-524 (2016) SSM-Population Health |
| بيانات النشر: | Elsevier BV, 2016. |
| سنة النشر: | 2016 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 030505 public health, Health (social science), lcsh:Public aspects of medicine, Health Policy, media_common.quotation_subject, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Male mortality, lcsh:RA1-1270, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Mortality data, lcsh:H1-99, 030212 general & internal medicine, Psychological resilience, lcsh:Social sciences (General), 0305 other medical science, Psychology, Socioeconomic status, Disadvantage, Demography, media_common |
| الوصف: | Sex differences in mortality vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances. The magnitude of these variations, and their response to large socioeconomic changes, suggest that biological differences cannot fully account for sex differences in survival. Drawing on a wide swath of mortality data across countries and over time, we develop a set of empiric observations with which any theory about excess male mortality and its correlates will have to contend. We show that as societies develop, M/F survival first declines and then increases, a “sex difference in mortality transition” embedded within the demographic and epidemiologic transitions. After the onset of this transition, cross-sectional variation in excess male mortality exhibits a consistent pattern of greater female resilience to mortality under socio-economic adversity. The causal mechanisms underlying these associations merit further research. Highlights • Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place. • Biological differences cannot fully account for sex differences in survival. • Women exhibit greater survival resilience to adverse socioeconomic conditions. • The largest male-female differences in mortality occur in conditions of socioeconomic adversity. • SDIM should decrease if social policy reduces exposure to adverse conditions. |
| تدمد: | 2352-8273 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.06.006 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::2f50f6b9a1f6dee9175c573685be01daTest |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....2f50f6b9a1f6dee9175c573685be01da |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 23528273 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.06.006 |