| Titre : | Cross-national variation of gender differences in adolescent subjective health in Europe and North America. (2006) |
| Auteurs : | Torbjorn TORSHEIM ; DANIELSON (Mia) : SWE. National Institute of Public Health. Stockholm. ; Jorn HETLAND ; OVERPECK (Mary) : USA. Health Resources and Services Administration. Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Rockville. MD. ; RAVENS-SIEBERER (Ulrike) : DEU. Robert Koch Institute. Child and Adolescent Health. Berlin. ; VALIMAA (Raili) : FIN. University of Jyväskylä. Department of Health Sciences. Jyväskylä. |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 62, n° 4, 2006) |
| Pagination : | 815-827 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Sexe ; Etude comparée ; Europe ; Adolescent ; Homme ; Amérique ; Développement ; Psychopathologie ; Europe sociale ; Amérique du Nord |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS v67MR0xt. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The cross-national consistency and variation of gender differences in subjective health complaints was examined in a sample of 125732 11-to 15-year-olds from 29 European and North American countries, participating in the WHO collaborative study'Health behaviour in school-aged children (HBSC) 1997/98'Health complaints were measured with the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Symptom Checklist. Gender differences in health complaints were analysed through multilevel logistic regression analysis. The results indicated a very robust pattern of increasing gender differences across age, with 15-year-old girls as a group at increased risk for health complaints across all countries. The magnitude of gender differences varied across countries, with some countries showing a consistently strong gender difference across age group and different health complaints, and other countries showing a consistently weak gender difference. The gender difference in health complaints was stronger in countries with a low gender development index score. The findings underscore the need to incorporate socio-contextual factors in the study of gender health inequalities during adolescence. |
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