Titre : | Gender differences of symptom reporting and medical health care utilization in the German population. (2000) |
Auteurs : | Karl-Heinz LADWIG ; Gerhard Dammann ; Bertold FORMANEK ; Birgitt MARTEN-MITTAG ; Institut und Poliklinik für Psychosomatische Medizin. Med Psychologie and Psychotherapie des Klinikums Rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München. DEU |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | European journal of epidemiology (vol. 16, n° 6, 2000) |
Pagination : | 511-518 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Utilisation ; Utilisation service ; Classe sociale ; Sexe ; Symptôme ; Evaluation ; Homme ; Allemagne ; Europe ; Epidémiologie |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST ou57R0xm. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Aim : Gender differences in morbidity have been widely confirmed in representative health surveys in North America and Europe. Significantly more women than men suffer from somatic complaints. It is less clear whether differences in symptom reporting provide an impact on health care utilization and to which degree psychosocial factors exhibit confounding influence. Methods : We analyzed data from a representative health examination survey in Germany with 7466 participants in the age range of 25 to 69 years. Results : The analysis confirmed an overall excess in female symptom reporting, both in the total sample (n=7460 ; p |