PS287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Intersectionality, Counterintuitive, Body Mass Index
Document Summary
What to expect: sex differences in health: evidence and explanations. Theme: definitive sex differences in mortality and morbidity, with multiple possible explanations. Focus on general aspects of mortality and morbidity. Apa format for entire paper next time (double-spaced, times new roman, etc ) Turnitin: papers scoring more than 20% will not be graded next time. Life span: women outlive men in us by 5 years, recent years: sex gap in mortality has narrowed, sex gap also varies by race and country, men die younger than women throughout life span. Lifestyle factors play a role in all causes. Heart disease, cancer, cerebrovascular disease, chronic lower respiratory disease, and accidents. Men more likely than women to die of most of the leading causes of death. Men more likely to commit/be victims of violent crimes, including homicide (65%) Women more likely than men to be killed by someone they know. Age-adjusted death rates (per 100,000) for the leading causes of death in 2007.
