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Quality of Life and Health of Ageing Women in Hungary: Characteristics and Bio—psycho—social Background Factors

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Similarly to the international tendencies, the remarkable and increasing ageing of the population and the phenomenon of the “féminisation of ageing” are characteristic to Hungary, as well. Life expectancy of Hungarian women in 1900 was 38.2 years and that of men was 36.6 years (gender difference: 1.6 years), while these rates in 2000 were 75.6 and 67.1 years (gender difference: 8.5 years) (Table 1). In 1990 the rate of those older than 60 years was 18.9%, in 2001 this rate was 20.4%, while it is expected that by 2050 the rate of those older than 65 years will be more than 25% (Jeszenszky, 2003). The life expectancy is worse, and the gender difference is more remarkable in the East European region than in Western Europe. While in the 1970s the life expectancy of the Hungarian men and women was better than in the neighbouring Austria, today Austrian men live 7.7 years longer and Austrian women 5.2 years longer than their Hungarian counterparts.

This study is based on the database of the Hungarostudy 2002 health survey that was supported by the NKFP 1/002/2001, and OTKA TS040889 grants.

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  1. Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Semmelweis University, Nagyvárad tér 4, 1089, Budapest, Hungary

    Mónika Erika Kovács MD, Ph.D.

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Kovács, M.E. (2006). Quality of Life and Health of Ageing Women in Hungary: Characteristics and Bio—psycho—social Background Factors. In: Backes, G.M., Lasch, V., Reimann, K. (eds) Gender, Health and Ageing. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90355-2_9

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