Gender-specific life expectancy in Europe 1850-2010 / edited by Martin Dinges, Andreas Weigl.

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Book
Language
English
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Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016.
Description
216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

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    Contents
    • Introduction
    • The drifting apart of gender-spesific life expectancies in Europe 1850-2010 / Andreas Weigl
    • Germany and Austria
    • The impact of biological factors on sex differences in life expectancy : insights from a natural experiment / Marc Luy
    • The gender gap in life expectancy in Austria and the change in the working environment (c. 1900-1950) / Andreas Weigl
    • The reduction of the gender gap in life expectancy in Austria since the 1980s : an educational phenomenon? / Johannes Klotz
    • Western Europe, Belgium and the Netherlands
    • Gender specific mortality trends over the epidemiological transition : a view from the British mainland 1850-2000 / Alice Reid, Eilidh Garrett, Chris Dibben, Lee Williamson
    • The evolution of the gender gap in life expectancy in Belgium and the smoking epidemic (1841 to 2013) / Patrick Deboosere
    • The mortality gender gap in the Netherlands 1850-2000 / Frans van Poppel, Fanny Janssen
    • Sweden
    • Gender-specific life expectancies in Sweden 1810-1980 / Sam Willner
    • Changes in the gender gap in life expectancy in Sweden : A cohort analysis with the most recent trends / Orjan Hemstrom
    • Switzerland
    • The evolution of the gender gap in Switzerland since 1876 / Raymond Kohli
    • How do causes of death influence the evolution of the gender gap in life expectancies in Switzerland? / Christoph Junker
    • Conclusions
    • Gender gap similarities and differences in Europe / Martin Dinges, Andreas Weigl
    • Authors.
    ISBN
    9783515112581 ((pbk.))
    OCLC
    937724467
    RCP
    H - S
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