International stratification and the health of women: an empirical comparison of alternative models of world-system position.
Women's health status is investigated in the context of stratification in the world-system. We investigate three alternative conceptualizations of the world-system for their effects on women's health status, using country-level data. The models investigate the effects of world-system position, military expenditures, and health resources on women's health status. Comparison of the alternative conceptualizations of world-system position indicate that a continuous model is only negligibly better than three- or five-block models at explaining women's health status. Regardless of how it is measured, world-system position has dramatic effects on women's health.
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Department of Sociology, University of Akron, OH, USA.
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D004467:Economics; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011056:Political Systems; D011203:Poverty; D011287:Prejudice; D012936:Social Medicine; D016387:Women's Health