,Constrained Choice : Why Are Some Women and Men Able To Create and Maintain Healthy Lifestyles, While Others Are Not?

Constrained Choice : Why Are Some Women and Men Able To Create and Maintain Healthy Lifestyles, While Others Are Not?


 

Publication Date: January 2008

Publisher: RAND Corporation

Author(s): Chloe E. Bird; Patricia P. Rieker

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Type: Fact sheet

Abstract:

This fact sheet describes a model of constrained choice that explains how policy decisions at the family, work, community, and government levels can have unintended consequences that ultimately produce differences in men's and women's health.