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Papers of the Week


2023 Jan 12


BMC Public Health


23


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Women suffer but men die: survey data exploring whether this self-reported health paradox is real or an artefact of gender stereotypes.

Abstract

Despite consistently reporting poorer health, women universally outlive men. We examine whether gender differences in lived circumstances considered, and meaning attributed to SRH by women and men might explain this paradox.