RAND Europe, Cambridge, UK.
Popul Stud (Camb). 2011 Jul;65(2):231-44. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2011.571280. Epub 2011 May 23.
The difference in life expectancy between women and men among Israeli Jews is very low relative to the difference in other developed countries, and the reasons for this are not fully understood. This paper explores the contribution of smoking to the observed patterns of sex-specific mortality among Israeli Jews, and to the sex difference in mortality exhibited by this population. The results show that the mortality of Israeli Jewish men is low owing to the relatively weak impact of smoking-related mortality, and that this also contributes to an explanation of the small sex difference. The result is explained by the high level of health-protective behaviour of Israeli Jewish men, including a low intensity of smoking (though not a low prevalence). The findings could have implications for some debates on the determinants of divergences and convergences in mortality, and research into the relationship between mortality and the Mediterranean diet.
以色列犹太人中女性和男性的预期寿命存在差异，这与其他发达国家相比非常低，其原因尚不完全清楚。本文探讨了吸烟对以色列犹太人中观察到的性别特异性死亡率模式以及该人群中死亡率性别差异的贡献。结果表明，由于与吸烟相关的死亡率的影响相对较弱，以色列犹太男性的死亡率较低，这也有助于解释较小的性别差异。这种结果是由以色列犹太男性高水平的健康保护行为所解释的，包括吸烟强度低（尽管流行程度不低）。这些发现可能对一些关于死亡率差异和趋同决定因素的争论以及关于死亡率与地中海饮食关系的研究产生影响。
