Women's health status and gender inequality in China

Determinants of Outpatient Services Utilization in Shiraz, 2012

“…But Luo [17] in his study found no significant relationship between the utilization of the outpatient services and gender. A number of reasons have been put for why the women had a higher rate of utilizing the outpatient services including their more attention to diseases occurrence and diseases early symptoms and their concerns for curing the illnesses through outpatient services while the men seek the medical services when their disease has reaches a critical stage [18].…”

Measuring health inequalities between genders and age groups with realization of potential life years (RePLY)

“…This is likely to be related to the one-child policy and the social preference for boys. 26 Conversely, in Japan and the Russian Federation, males are worse off for many subgroups aged < 50. This is probably related to high suicide rates among young Japanese males and the impacts of alcohol abuse and violence on Russian males.…”

Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) for Decision-making? An Overview of the Literature

“…Yu and Sarri (1997) have used DALYs to document changing patterns of female diseases and causes of death. But, there has nevertheless been an interesting group of papers published presenting a gender-based criticism of DALYs.…”