Health surveys, studies on physical symptom reporting, and medical registration of physical
complaints find consistent sex differences in symptom reporting, with women having the …

We are pleased to present this evidence based review which contains a reappraisal of the
status of women's mental health problems in different regions of the world. It updates and …

What is ahealthy'lifestyle? Which is more significant: the social circumstances in which
people live, or lifestyle habits such as exercise or smoking? Health and Lifestyles is the first …

This third edition of this best-selling book confirms the ongoing centrality of feminist
perspectives and research to the sociological enterprise, and introduces students to the …

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 …

To date, no single explanation has accounted for discrepancies between male and female
morbidity rates and health care utilization patterns. The sociomedical approach to …

Background: The aim of this study was to analyse how paid work, unpaid household tasks,
child care, work–child care interactions and perceived work stress are associated with …

We investigated associations of work–family conflict and work and family conditions with
objectively measured cardiometabolic risk and sleep. Multilevel analyses assessed cross …

Data on over 20,000 women and men aged 20–59 are analysed from the British General
Household Survey for 1991 and 1992, showing the importance of separately analysing …