your health: What are the key health differences?

What are the key health differences?

There is a massive 'gender health gap' between men and women.

Shorter life expectancy - average life expectancy for men is 77.4 years compared with 81.6 years for women. And there is a 15-year gap in life expectancy between women in the highest socio-economic groups and working-class men from the most deprived ethnic minority backgrounds.
Higher occupational risks – deaths from occupational causes are far higher for men than for women.
Premature deaths and suicides – as a result of a complex of pressures, death from accidents and suicides among young men are 4 times higher than for young women.
Coronary heart disease death rates are up to 5 times higher for men.

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