ArticleEuropean journal of ageing2010
Gender gap in health expectancy.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Social inequity in ageing in place among older adults in Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries: a mixed studies systematic review.Age and ageing · 2024Pooled it
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- Domain-specific trends in healthy life expectancy among Chinese older adults: Compression, expansion, and dynamic equilibrium.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- Diffusion of cumulative advantage? How wealth and health trajectories co-evolve across the life course among older adults.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- The cost of caring: Gendered health and labor market effects of grandparenthood.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Temporal trends in mortality attributable to atrial fibrillation among adults with acute renal failure in the United States, 1999-2024.International urology and nephrology · 2026Article
- All-cause health-adjusted life expectancy in Jiangxi Province, China, 2000-2030: systematic estimation and analysis.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Identifying sex-specific predictors of frailty in Korean community-dwelling older adults using interpretable machine learning.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- The influence of stress, social support and feminine values on the health behaviour of women in Hong Kong.Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
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- Decomposition Analysis of Urban-Rural Disparities in Healthy Life Expectancy Among Older Adults - China, 2010-2020.China CDC weekly · 2025Article
- Multimorbid life expectancy across race, socio-economic status, and sex in South Africa.Population studies · 2025Article
- Estimating the Sex Gap in Depression-Free Life Expectancy Among Widowed Americans Aged 50 and Older: An Application Using the Interpolated Markov Chain Approach.Journal of aging and health · 2025Article
- Outliving and outlasting: explaining sex inequities in healthy life expectancy through the lens of multimorbidity and within morbidities in older populations in India.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- From curing to caring: exploring social care needs after the onset of chronic conditions among European older adults (50+).Innovation in aging · 2025Article
- Life course socio-demographic circumstances and the association between housing tenure and disability-free life expectancy in Australia: a longitudinal cohort study.BMJ public health · 2024Article
- Synergistic effects of glucose tolerance and BMI on cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in a healthy population: CA.ME.LI.A study 7 years follow-up.American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism · 2024Article
- Differences between subjective and disability health expectancies across ages in older adults.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Men have higher death rates than women, but women do worse with regard to physical strength, disability, and other health outcomes, the so called male-female health-survival paradox. The paradox is likely to be due to multiple causes that include biological, behavioral, and social differences between the sexes. Despite decades of research on the male-female health-survival paradox, we still do not fully recognize whether behavioral factors explain most of the gender gap or whether biological and social differences contribute more substantially to the explanation of the sex differences in health and mortality. Little work has been done to investigate the magnitude of sex differences in healthy life expectancy and unhealthy life expectancy, as well as to examine the contribution of mortality and disability levels to the sex gap in health expectancy. The five selected works presented at the Réseau Espérance de Vie en Santé (REVES) Meeting 2009 in Copenhagen, and published in this issue, provide new insights into sex differences in health expectancy. The papers examine sex differences in health expectancy indicators in the EU countries, as well as trends in health expectancy in Hong Kong and in the US. They go beyond description of sex differences in health expectancy and assess the contributions of mortality and disability to gender differences in healthy life years and unhealthy life years, investigate temporal changes in sex differential health expectancy, as well as analyze contributions of time and age dimensions to the gender gap. They also show that there is still work to be done to indentify and quantify mechanisms underlying sex differences in longevity, health, and aging.
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