H. Dyches et B. Rushing, INTERNATIONAL STRATIFICATION AND THE HEALTH OF WOMEN - AN EMPIRICAL-COMPARISON OF ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF WORLD-SYSTEM POSITION, Social science & medicine, 43(7), 1996, pp. 1063-1072
Citations number
64
Categorie Soggetti
Social Sciences, Biomedical","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Women's health status is investigated in the context of stratification
in the world-system. We investigate three alternative conceptualizati
ons of the world-system for their effects on women's health status, us
ing country-level data. The models investigate the effects of world-sy
stem position, military expenditures, and health resources on women's
health status. Comparison of the alternative conceptualizations of wor
ld-system position indicate that a continuous model is only negligibly
better than three- or five-block models at explaining women's health
status. Regardless of how it is measured, world-system position has dr
amatic effects on women's health. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science
Ltd