THE HEALTH-STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE WORLD-SYSTEM

The health status of women is examined within the context of a global political economy. The authors present a beginning attempt to model so me key macrolevel processes linked to the health of women. In particul ar, a structural modeling technique known as LVPLS (or ''soft modeling '') is used to empirically test one recent formulation of world-system theory. The findings give added emphasis to the importance of the lar ger economic forces that affect women's health.