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Defining and measuring gender: A social determinant of health whose time has come

This paper contributes to a nascent scholarly discussion of sex and gender as determinants of health. Health is a composite of biological makeup and socioeconomic circumstances. Differences in health and illness patterns of men and women are attributable both to sex, or biology, and to gender, that...

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Autor principal: Phillips, Susan P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1180842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16014164
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-4-11