Description: Reviewing previous research and presenting new empirical data from Sweden and elsewhere, the authors of this revised volume examine basic concepts, possible hypotheses, explanatory models, and policy solutions for the biological and social causes of the differences in health between men and women.
Brief description: Piroska Östlin is a medical sociologist based at the Karolinska Institute as a Senior Researcher. She is also a Research Fellow of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.