Abstract/Sommario: This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility processes or focusing on health and mortality.

Abstract/Sommario: For nearly 20 years, this has been a valuable text for health practitioners with an interest in the impact of what people do throughout their lives. Now available in an updated and much-anticipated third edition, it continues the intention of the original publication: it encourages wide-ranging recognition of occupation as a major contributor to all people’s experience of health or illness. It also promotes understanding of how, throughout the world, “population health” as well as indi ...; [Leggi tutto...] For nearly 20 years, this has been a valuable text for health practitioners with an interest in the impact of what people do throughout their lives. Now available in an updated and much-anticipated third edition, it continues the intention of the original publication: it encourages wide-ranging recognition of occupation as a major contributor to all people’s experience of health or illness. It also promotes understanding of how, throughout the world, “population health” as well as individual well-being is dependent on occupation.

Abstract/Sommario: In questo numero è pubblicato il IX Rapporto di Censis e Salute - la Repubblica sulla terza età. Essere anziani sembra un fatto puramente biologico e naturale. Dobbiamo invece renderci conto di quanto si tratti anzitutto di una rappresentazione sociale, derivante in primo luogo dal senso complessivo che una società assegna alle diverse fasi del ciclo di vita. Oggi, soprattutto di fronte all’aumento progressivo della popolazione anziana, la nostra società non può non riesaminare in man ...; [Leggi tutto...] In questo numero è pubblicato il IX Rapporto di Censis e Salute - la Repubblica sulla terza età. Essere anziani sembra un fatto puramente biologico e naturale. Dobbiamo invece renderci conto di quanto si tratti anzitutto di una rappresentazione sociale, derivante in primo luogo dal senso complessivo che una società assegna alle diverse fasi del ciclo di vita. Oggi, soprattutto di fronte all’aumento progressivo della popolazione anziana, la nostra società non può non riesaminare in maniera critica la fase della cosiddetta terza età. La ricerca è stata presentata a Roma nell’ambito della decima edizione del convegno “Terza età. Un mondo da scoprire, una risorsa da valorizzare” il 23 e 24 novembre 2010.

Abstract/Sommario: Women are on average more absent from work for health reasons than men. At the same time, they live longer. This conflicting pattern suggests that part of the gender difference in health-related absenteeism arises from differences between the genders unrelated to actual health. An overlooked explanation could be that men and women's preferences for absenteeism differ, for example because of gender differences in risk preferences. These differences may originate from the utility-maximiz ...; [Leggi tutto...] Women are on average more absent from work for health reasons than men. At the same time, they live longer. This conflicting pattern suggests that part of the gender difference in health-related absenteeism arises from differences between the genders unrelated to actual health. An overlooked explanation could be that men and women's preferences for absenteeism differ, for example because of gender differences in risk preferences. These differences may originate from the utility-maximizing of households in which women's traditional dual roles influence household decisions to invest primarily in women's health. Using detailed administrative data on sick leave, hospital visits and objective health measures we first investigate the existence of gender-specific preferences for absenteeism and subsequently test for the household investment hypothesis. We find evidence for the existence of gender differences in preferences for absence from work, and that a non-trivial part of these preference differences can be attributed to household investments in women's health.