Living to our full potential: Reassessing global sex inequalities in life expectancy.
review · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 41843494.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004987 and PMC identifier 12994820.
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Abstract
Benchmarking life expectancy against what is achievable reveals how sex disadvantage shifts by age, place, and time, and reframes inequality as unrealized potential due to social and structural constraints rather than differences in biology.
Medical subject headings
- Life Expectancy
- Global Health
- Health Status Disparities