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1 online resource (222 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Introduction -- The drifting apart of gender-specific life expectancies in Europe 1850-2010; Germany and Austria; The impact of biological factors on sex differences in life expectancy: insights gained from a natural experiment; The gender gap in life expectancy in Austria and the change in the working environment (c. 1900-1950); The reduction of the gender gap in life expectancy in Austria since the 1980s: an educational phenomenon?; Western Europe, Belgium and the Netherlands |
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Gender specific mortality trends over the epidemiological transition: a view from the British mainland 1850-2000The evolution of the gender gap in life expectancy in Belgium and the smoking epidemic (1841 to 2013); The mortality gender gap in the Netherlands 1850-2000; Sweden; Gender-specific life expectancies in Sweden 1810-1980; Changes in the gender gap in life expectancy in Sweden: A cohort analysis with the most recent trends; Switzerland; Evolution of the gender gap in Switzerland; How do causes of death influence the evolution of the gender gap in life expectancies in Switzerland? |
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Conclusions -- Gender gap similarities and differences in EuropeAuthors |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Life expectancy -- Sex differences -- Europe -- History
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Sex factors in disease.
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Sex Factors
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Life expectancy -- Sex differences
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Sex factors in disease
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dinges, Martin, 1953- editor
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Weigl, Andreas, 1961- editor
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| ISBN |
9783515112758 |
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3515112758 |
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