Causes of Male Excess Mortality
Insights from Cloistered Populations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4120937 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marc Luy (0000-0001-9282-6472, Federal Institute for Population Research, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 647-676 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2003.00647.x |
| OpenAlex | W2170082023 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 100 |
The degree to which biological factors contribute to the existence and the widening of mortality differences by sex remains unclear. To address this question, a mortality analysis for the years 1890 to 1995 was performed comparing mortality data on more than 11,000 Catholic nuns and monks in Bavarian communities living in very nearly identical behavioral and environmental conditions with life table data for the general German population. While the mortality differences between women and men in the general German population increased considerably after World War II, they remained almost constant among the members of Bavarian religious orders during the entire observation period, with slight advantages for nuns. Thus, the higher differences observable in the general population cannot be attributed to biological factors. The different trends in sex-specific mortality between the general and the cloistered populations are caused exclusively by men in the general population who were unable to follow the trend in mortality reduction of women, nuns, and especially monks. Under the special environmental conditions of nuns and monks, biological factors appear to confer a maximum survival advantage for women of no more than one year in remaining life expectancy at young adult ages
Biology · Excess mortality · Mortality rate · Sociology · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention · Historical and modern epidemiology studies
Social and economic inequalities in adult mortality in India
Decrease in Sex Difference in Premature Mortality During System Transformation in Poland
Someone to live for
Unnatural Deaths Among Nuns and Monks
Sex Differences in Life Expectancy in Canada
Cross-Sectional Association Between Life Expectancy and Unhealthy Life Years
Social Determinants of Remaining Life Expectancy at Age 60
A comparison of different methods for decomposition of changes in expectation of life at birth and differentials in life expectancy at birth
Diferenciais de mortalidade
Causes of death contributions to the sex gaps in life expectancy
Women live longer than men even during severe famines and epidemics
Centenarians’ Marital History and Living Arrangements
Unequal excess mortality during the Spanish Flu pandemic in the Netherlands
From Divergence to Convergence
Gender differences in life expectancy at birth in Greece 1994–2017
From Lifespan Inequality to Lifespan Inequity
Von Heterogenitäten zu Ungleichheiten
Does gender inequity increase men's mortality risk in the United States? A multilevel analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Mortality Study
Life expectancy, life disparity, and differential racialization among Chinese, Asian Indians, and Filipinos in the United States
The intersection of life expectancy and gender in a transitional state
Modeling the Relationship Between Male and Female Mortality Patterns in Modern Populations
Sex differences in children with severe health conditions
Avoidable Mortality in the German Baltic Sea Region Since Reunification
Sex Differences in U.S. Adolescent and Young Adult Mortality
Ageing in an aged society
Living arrangements and marital status
The Mechanism Underlying Change in the Sex Gap in Life Expectancy at Birth
Incarcerating death
Medieval monastic mortality
Contributions of age groups and causes of death to the sex gap in lifespan variation in Europe
Variable-r in sex ratios
A divergent pattern of the sex difference in life expectancy
Educational composition effect on the sex gap in life expectancy
Life expectancy of artists in the Low Countries from the fifteenth to the twentieth century
Europe at the Crossroads
Life expectancy by religious affiliation in Finland 1972-2020
How much time is left? International trends in parenthood expectancy
Leveraging deep neural networks to estimate age-specific mortality from life expectancy at birth
Unusually small sex differentials in mortality of Israeli Jews
No Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality among Catholic Monks
Mortality patterns in national populations
Sex differentials in mortality
Marriage and Divorce
The Sex Differential in Morbidity, Mortality, and Lifestyle
Inequalities in Death—specific Explanations of a General Pattern?
A descriptive model of the cigarette epidemic in developed countries
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The health of the clergy
Trends in Mortality in Older Women
Welfare, mortality, and gender. Continuity and change in explanations for male/female mortality differences over three centuries
Sex Differences in Mortality at the Local Level
Female labour force activity and the sex differential in mortality
Adult mortality differentials associated with cigarette smoking in the USA
The future of sex mortality differentials in industrialized countries
Mortality among male and female smokers in Sweden
Mortality after death of spouse in relation to duration of bereavement in Finland
Life expectancy as a summary of mortality in a population
Changing Sex Differential in Mortality
Women, work and coronary heart disease
The development of sex differences in cardiovascular disease mortality
Population Variation in Cause of Death
Declining sex differences in mortality from lung cancer in high-income nations
Measuring and explaining the change in life expectancies
Why do women live longer than men
Contribution of cause‐specific mortality to changing sex differences in life expectancy
La surmortalité féminine en Europe avant 1940
Narrowing sex differentials in life expectancy in the industrialized world
Living and dying in the USA
Sex differences in human mortality
Health and social inequities in Finland and elsewhere
Recent trends in sex mortality ratios for adults in developed countries
Problems in the measurement and international comparison of socio-economic differences in mortality
Life expectancies of cigarette smokers and nonsmokers in the United States
An international comparison of excessive adult mortality
Adult Mortality in Developed Countries
Cigarette Use and the Narrowing Sex Differential in Mortality
Sociodemographic Characteristics of Long-Lived and Healthy Individuals
Mortalité des laïcs et mortalité des religieux
Patterns of morbidity in late medieval England
Mortality in the Fifteenth Century
Marriage, Sex, and Mortality
Surmortalité biologique et surmortalité sociale
Sex Differentials in Coronary Heart Disease
Gender and the Socioeconomic Gradient in Mortality
The Twain Meet
Gender and Health
Sex Differences in Mortality
Sex differences in mortality as a social indicator
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,74 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |