Fit for fight - self-reported health in military women: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Substantial research has found that women assess their health as poor relative to men, but the reasons for this are not fully understood. Military women are characterised by good health and the ability to work in an archetypically male culture. Thus, studies on the gender pattern of self-reported health in military personnel could generate hypotheses for future research on the possible associations between gender and health. However, such studies are rare and limited to a few countries. The aim of this study was to examine self-reported physical and mental health in Norwegian military women. METHODS:We compared responses on self-reported health of 1068 active duty military women in Norway to those of active duty military men (n = 8100). Further, we compared the military women to

SUBMITTER: Fadum EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6798407 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature