Demography of Sex Differences in Health and Survival

健康和生存方面性别差异的人口统计学

• 批准号: 7934569
• 负责人: James W. Vaupel
• 金额: $ 72.23万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-30 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7934569
• 关键词: Demography; Sex; Differences; Health; Survival

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Is it true that males are healthier than females but die younger? If so, why? We plan demographic analyses to address these two overarching questions concerning the health-survival paradox. First, to what extent is the paradox true? How general is it? * According to which definitions and measures and along which dimensions are men healthier than women? * How do male-female morbidity and mortality differences vary with age? * How do they vary over place? * How have they varied over time? * How do they vary across species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish? Second, to the extent that the paradox is true, why is this the case? Various social and biological hypotheses will be tested by analyzing: Human and nonhuman lifetables (Project 1); Survey and register data on humans in Denmark (Project 2); Survey data on humans in the United States (Project 3) and in Japan, the Philippines and Singapore (Project 4); Longitudinal observations on baboons in the wild in Kenya (Project 5); Longitudinal data on lemurs in the wild on Madagascar and in captivity at Duke and in France (Project 6); and Laboratory data on fruit flies (Project 7). The combination of informative animal models and high-quality human data and sophisticated demographic analyses will provide a deeper understanding of the basis for sex differences in health and survival and of opportunities to reduce these differences.

描述（由申请人提供）：男性比女性更健康，但死了吗？如果是这样，为什么？我们计划进行人口统计分析，以解决有关健康生存悖论的这两个总体问题。 首先，悖论在多大程度上是正确的？它有多一般？ *根据哪些定义和措施以及维度比男性更健康的措施 女性？ *男性女性发病率和死亡率差异如何随着年龄的增长而变化？ *他们如何在地方变化？ *随着时间的流逝，它们如何变化？ *它们如何随着哺乳动物，鸟类，爬行动物，两栖动物和鱼类的变化而变化？ 其次，在悖论是正确的范围内，为什么是这样？各种社会和生物学假设将通过分析来检验： 人类和非人类的生命图案（项目1）； 调查并注册丹麦人类的数据（项目2）； 美国人类（项目3）和日本，菲律宾和新加坡的调查数据（项目4）； 对肯尼亚野生狒狒的纵向观察（项目5）； 马达加斯加野外狐猴的纵向数据以及在杜克大学和法国被囚禁的（项目6）；和 关于水果苍蝇的实验室数据（项目7）。 内容丰富的动物模型和高质量的人类数据与复杂的结合 人口统计分析将对健康和生存性别差异的基础有更深入的了解，以及减少这些差异的机会。