International stratification and the health of women: An empirical comparison of alternative models of world-system position

Hayne Dyches and Beth Rushing

Social Science & Medicine, 1996, vol. 43, issue 7, 1063-1072

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1996
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