Sex Differences in the Use of Health Care Services
New England Journal of MedicinePublished 4 June 1998Open access
Cameron Mustard, Patricia Kaufert, Anita L. Kozyrskyj, Teresa Mayer
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Abstract
Expenditures for health care are similar for male and female subjects after differences in reproductive biology and higher age-specific mortality rates among men have been accounted for.
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