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This article explores the assumption that women are more affected by illness than men.
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This article focuses on how illness affect men and women, by looking into the domestic and the public dimensions of illness as well as differences in age and disease types.
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The Disability Adjusted Life Years or DALYs is a very useful and reliable measure for the international comparative analysis of disease burden. DALYs are used in this analysis.
Stella Quah
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This page is a summary of: Gender and the burden of disease in ten Asian countries: An exploratory analysis, Asia Europe Journal, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10308-011-0286-y.
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