The health status of women in the world-system.
The health status of women is examined within the context of a global political economy. The authors present a beginning attempt to model some key macrolevel processes linked to the health of women. In particular, a structural modeling technique known as LVPLS (or "soft modeling") is used to empirically test one recent formulation of world-system theory. The findings give added emphasis to the importance of the larger economic forces that affect women's health.
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Department of Sociology, Kent State University, OH 44242.
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D004467:Economics; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012922:Social Change; D016387:Women's Health; D014933:Women's Rights