Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften

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In our earlier work, we questioned the generalizability of the gender health-survival paradox, showing that the direction and magnitude of gender differences in health vary substantially across subjective and objective health measures and nations with different cultures and economic and social systems, including Denmark, the US, Russia, India, China, Cuba, and Mexico. Using insights from our multidisciplinary expertise, we demonstrated that the health-survival paradox is inconsistent when examining biological markers of health. Our recent research has been concerned with understanding the role of gender in shaping treatment-seeking and reporting health behaviors. G-HEALTH also seek to understand how do men and women modify their health behaviors after they experience a major life event.