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THE TROUBLE WITH MEN
Author(s) -
Kirby Roger,
Kirby Michael,
Carson Culley,
Fitzpatrick John M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
bju international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 1464-4096
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.2012.10985.x
Subject(s) - chapel , library science , art history , art , medicine , computer science
Dublin, Ireland Men die, on average, 5 years earlier than women. This difference in longevity has been described as the gender gap. For many years it was assumed that there must be some underlying genetic basis for this reduced life expectancy of males compared with females. Recently, however, it has been recognized that the problem lies in the fact that men lack awareness about their health and look after themselves very much less well than do females [ 1 ] .