Gender-specific Life Expectancy in Europe 1850-2010 - Couverture souple

9783515112581: Gender-specific Life Expectancy in Europe 1850-2010

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ISBN 10 : 3515112588 ISBN 13 : 9783515112581

Editeur : Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 2016

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It was not until the 1850s that the average life expectancy in women began to rise noticeably in Germany and Europe. Up to the 1980s it increased in waves. Since then the gender gap has gradually decreased and settled. For decades demographers, historians, medical researchers and health scientists have provided partial explanations for this phenomenon. This volume now presents a comparison of seven Central, Western and Northern European countries spanning one and a half centuries: some of the selected countries took part in both World Wars, others remained neutral; in some countries the rate of smoking varies, others have widely differing female occupation rates. As a result of this comparison, the varying effects of biological and socio-cultural influences on the gender gap and the reversal of this secular trend can be placed with much greater scientific precision than before. The volume also contributes to objectify the public debate on the gender gap and its implications for health policy.

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� propos de l'auteur

Martin Dinges ist apl. Professor fur Neuere Geschichte an der Universitat Mannheim und war bis 2019 stellvertretender Leiter des Instituts fur Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stuttgart. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Geschlechtergeschichte, Gesundheitsgeschichte der Neuzeit und Geschichte des Medizinischen Pluralismus.

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