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The weaker sex? Exploring lay understandings of gender differences in life expectancy: A qualitative study()

Despite increasing interest in gender and health, ‘lay’ perceptions of gender differences in mortality have been neglected. Drawing on semi-structured interview data from 45 men and women in two age cohorts (born in the early 1950s and 1970s) in the UK, we investigated lay explanations for women...

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Autores principales: Emslie, Carol, Hunt, Kate
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pergamon 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2570197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18558455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.05.009