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

Many investigators of the sex differences in health confound conception with reporting,
illness with illness behavior, and symptoms with disability. There is also a tendency to …

Many researchers have reported gender differences in levels of reported symptoms,
morbidity, mortality and medical care utilization, but the debate continues about the …

Health surveys repeatedly show that females have higher rates of illness, disability days,
and health services utilization than do males, Numerous reasons for these sex differences …

Health statistics routinely show higher morbidity and health services use for women, while
mortality rates are higher for men. This analysis empirically identifies reasons for women's …

Data from the national Health Interview Survey for 1957-72 show that females have higher
age-standardized rates of acute conditions, chronic conditions, and disability due to acute …

Many investigators of the sex differences in health confound conception with reporting,
illness with illness behavior, and symptoms with disability. There is also a tendency to …

Data from the 1994 Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS) do not confirm the
widespread assumption that women experience considerably more ill health than men. The …

For the past fifty years it has been consistently reported that men have higher rates of
mortality, while women have higher rates of morbidity. The higher rates of mortality for males …

The study investigates illness orientation as a factor which may account for sex differences
in the utilization of medical care. First, sex differences in the way symptoms are perceived …