The concept of social structure is one of the main building blocks of the social sciences, but it
lacks any precise technical definition within general sociological theory. This paper reviews …

There is a large research literature on socio-economic inequalities in health (and
explanations for these inequalities); there is also a large literature on gender differences in …

Objectives. We examined gender differences in the effects of unemployment on mental
health and assessed whether such effects are associated with interactions among gender …

Lesley Doyal draws on a wide range of disciplines to highlight the limitations of medical
models in understanding global patterns of health and disease in women. Examining in …

and Health: Page 1 VVHO/FRH/WHD/93.15 Distr: General Original: English Gender and
Health: Technical Paper Word Health Organization Women's Health and Development …

Study objective: Many previous studies on socioeconomic inequalities in health have
neglected the causal interdependencies between different socioeconomic indicators. This …

This paper examines gender differences in health, based on data from over 14,000 men and
women aged 60 and above from 3 years of the British General Household Survey, 1992 …

In this study we consider both a gender model, a model that focuses on the stress
associated with social roles and conditions in the home environment, and a job model …

This book focuses on the complex patterning of mental disorder identified in men and
women. The first part of the book examines the gendered landscape of mental disorder, key …

Social class understood as social relations of ownership and control over productive assets
taps into parts of the social variation in health that are not captured by conventional …