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Do men avoid seeking medical advice? A register-based analysis of gender-specific changes in primary healthcare use after first hospitalisation at ages 60+ in Denmark

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  • Andreas Höhn Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UKMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, GermanyDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Biodemography, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jutta Gampe Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rune Lindahl-Jacobsen Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Biodemography, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, DenmarkInterdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (Cpop), University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kaare Christensen Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, GermanyDanish Aging Research Center, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, Denmark PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anna Oksuyzan Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Andreas Höhn, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK; andreas.hohn{at}igmm.ed.ac.uk
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Höhn A, Gampe J, Lindahl-Jacobsen R, et al
Do men avoid seeking medical advice? A register-based analysis of gender-specific changes in primary healthcare use after first hospitalisation at ages 60+ in Denmark
J Epidemiol Community Health 2020;74:573-579.

Publication history

  • Received October 29, 2019
  • Revised February 18, 2020
  • Accepted March 12, 2020
  • First published April 17, 2020.
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July 11, 2020

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