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Heart Disease : Environment, Stress and Gender.
This text attempts to answer the question: Why do men get more heart disease than women? The book focuses on environmental, behavioural, and psychosocial variables, as well as new risk factors of a biological nature in an attempt to understand the gender gap in heart disease.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
IOS Press,
2002.
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| Series: | NATO science series. Life and behavioural sciences ;
v. 327. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title page; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contributors; Foreword; Contents; Chapter 1 The Role of Stress and Gender-related Factors in the Increase in Heart Disease in Eastern Europe: Overview; Chapter 2 The Population Health Context for Gender, Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Central and Eastern Europe; Chapter 3 Adverse Health Effects of Effort-Reward Imbalance
- Applying the Model to Eastern Europe; Chapter 4 Premature Circulatory Disease Mortality in Russia: Population- and Individual-Level Evidence.
- Chapter 5 Coronary Heart Disease and Cardiovascular Mortality in the Urban Siberian Population: Gender-specific Findings from a 10-year Cohort StudyChapter 6 Trends in Gender Differences in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality
- Relationships to Trends in Health-related Behavior and Changing Gender Roles; Chapter 7 Risk Factors and Inequality in Relation to Morbidity and Mortality in a Changing Society; Chapter 8 Sociodemographic and Behavioral Correlates of Depression in Hungarian Women.