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In Latin America, there is an important set of studies that show a significant inverse relationship between socioeconomic status and mortality rates, but we know very little about the specific relation between educational attainment and adult mortality. The objective of this paper is to describe the relationship of adult mortality to educational attainment in Argentina for 2010. The data used in this study come from the Argentinean Mortality File of 2010 and from the last Argentinean Census. Results show a clear gradient in the specific mortality rates according to educational groups, for both sexes and for all age groups. The existence and direction of this relationship were as expected; however, the magnitude of educational differences was much higher than what has been found in other countries. The data also exhibited a clear declining trend in mortality inequalities by education as age increased

El objetivo del artículo es analizar algunos significados que dan varones jóvenes sobre ser hombre y las implicancias de estos significados en sus interacciones sociales. Se utilizan datos de una investigación cualitativa en hombres adolescentes de dos estratos socioeconómicos: bajo y medio-alto residentes en el Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires (AMBA). Uno de los hallazgos muestra que la concepción sobre un deseo sexual masculino arrollador y mayor que el deseo sexual femenino, si bien se justifica principalmente desde argumentos de tipo esencialistas, también se justifica desde argumentos sociales o desde una combinación de ambos. Un determinismo social, o un determinismo combinado entre argumentos sociales y biológicos también pueden orientar hacia una naturalización de las relaciones sociales que obstruyen la posibilidad del cambio individual y del cambio social.

In this article we approach socioeconomic inequities in cancer by examining a particular dimension of health care: how health services attending patients with cancer set priorities for their daily activities. By using qualitative ethnographic data, we explore logics underlying how practitioners make priority-setting decisions regarding cancer prevention and care. We found four main types of accounts: accounts based on macro social inequalities, accounts based on patients' social and cultural features, accounts based on characteristics of health services, and accounts based on personal voluntarism. These blurred logics shape the everyday decisions which have an impact not only on the quality of health care in general but on the increasing socioeconomic inequities in cancer care attention.