Sex differences in sickness absence and the morbidity-mortality paradox: a longitudinal study using Swedish administrative registers.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:To analyse whether gender-specific health behaviour can be an explanation for why women outlive men, while having worse morbidity outcomes, known as the morbidity-mortality or gender paradox. SETTING:The working population in Sweden. PARTICIPANTS:Thirty per cent random sample of Swedish women and men aged 40-59 with a hospital admission in the 1993-2004 period were included. The sample for analysis consists of 233 274 individuals (115 430 men and 117 844 women) and in total 1 867 013 observations on sickness absence. INTERVENTION:Hospital admission across 18 disease categories. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:The main outcome measures were sickness absence (morbidity) and mortality. Longitudinal data at the individual level allow us to study how sickness absence changed after a hospital ad

SUBMITTER: Avdic D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731828 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature