Association between gender social norms and cardiovascular disease mortality and life expectancy: an ecological study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Examine the association between country-level gender social norms and (1) cardiovascular disease mortality rates; (2) female to male cardiovascular disease mortality ratios; and (3) life expectancy.

Design

Ecological study with the country as the unit of analysis.

Setting

Global, country-level data.

Participants

Global population of countries with data available on gender social norms as measured by the Gender Social Norms Index (developed by the United Nations Development Programme).

Main outcome measures

Country-level female and male age-standardised cardiovascular disease mortality rates, population age-standardised cardiovascular disease mortality rates, female to male cardiovascular disease mortality ratios, female and male life expectancy

SUBMITTER: Lyell I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10151956 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature