Sex Differences in Health Effects of Family Death or Illness: Are Women More Vulnerable Than Men?
- 1 March 2006
- journal article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Psychosomatic Medicine
- Vol. 68 (2), 283-291
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.psy.0000203238.71171.8d
Abstract
Objective: To study sex differences in health after stressful life events in the family.Keywords
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