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Towards a structuralist understanding of gender differences in health

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  1. Department of Public Health at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Eero Lahelma (Professor of medical sociology and director of research group on the social patterning of health)

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Lahelma, E. Towards a structuralist understanding of gender differences in health. Soz Präventivmed 46, 217–218 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01593173

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