A global assessment of the gender gap in self-reported health with survey data from 59 countries

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Table 2 Excess fraction women over men by health domains and algorithm-based diagnoses, by region, World Health Survey 2002–04

	Prevalence (%)					Excess (%)^a
	Women	Men	Total	Sub-Saharan Africa	Latin America	Europe, high income	Eastern Europe	South Asia	Other
Domains
Mobility	23.7	15.4	35	35	44	19	26	35	41
Self-care	3.9	2.7	31	24	12	17	30	30	53
Pain	14.6	9.5	35	27	43	35	31	41	45
Cognition	10.5	7.0	33	27	45	14	22	36	46
Relationships	5.5	3.9	28	20	36	2	27	32	41
Vision	8.6	6.4	25	19	27	49	28	23	41
Sleep	12.5	8.1	35	26	46	49	31	41	39
Affect	15.2	11.1	27	26	43	59	43	13	19
Diseases based on algorithms
Angina	12.9	8.7	33	36	42	15	37	26	33
Arthritis	9.2	6.3	32	21	42	24	35	33	36
Asthma	7.4	6.8	8	18	25	0	1	1	0
Depression	8.2	4.8	42	32	54	55	55	34	39
Diabetes^a	3.8	3.3	14	16	30	−12	10	1	21

^aExcess is the female excess fraction; for domains of health a score combining the two questions in each domain (see Additional file 1) was used; all female-male differences are statistically significant at the 1 % level; all figures are weighted and age-standardized

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