Link to the article (in German)
In the summary at the top it says: "The Ministry of Health presented the Women's Health Report 2022 on Thursday. The conclusion: at an average of 83.7 years, women live longer than men at 78.8 years. However, they spend 19.3 of those years in "moderate to poor health." For men, this figure is 16.2 years. And the ministry sounds the alarm: the proportion of deaths from cardiovascular diseases is significantly higher among women than among men." (translated with DeepL).
If you do the very complicated math, you get 64,4 years spent NOT in "moderate to poor health" for women vs 62,6 years for men. If you scroll down, in the graphic, they show slightly different numbers 64,8 vs 63,2 in good health for some reason (but at least they show that). Either way, more years in good health for women, and longer total life expectancy.
In percentage, women do spend a slightly larger part of their life in "moderate to poor health", around 23 vs 21%. But what do you expect if you have some more years in the tail end.
It then goes on to say that women die significantly more often from cardiovascular disease than men. I mean, ok? That just means that there are other diseases which men die significantly more often from, so what's the point?
I think we all know the point, it's clear. It's to appeal to the current Zeitgeist.
In general, the whole article is written quite whiny and how much worse women have it.
Interesting is also this part: "There are also differences according to gender in the case of mental illness. Women suffer more frequently from mental illnesses than men: they account for 15 percent of illnesses in women, compared with 13.9 percent in men. Among girls and young women under 20, mental illnesses are even the most frequent cause of years spent in sickness, accounting for 27 percent."
First of all, not a huge difference, also, one could speculate that men don't get diagnosed with mental illnesses as often as women, because of stigmas. So I personally am doubting that women have worse mental health than men.
In the end, I don't mind highlighting women's issues, because they definitely exist, as long as we also highlight men's. But having poorer health and a shorter life are not women's issues, according to your data ffs! This is ridiculous. It shouldn't be a fight of who has it worse. Men have issues, women do, some of them overlap, some don't. Women die of breast cancer, we should work on that. Men die of prostate cancer, we should work on that, too. Women apparently spend more time of their life in good health - well, that's a women's issue now? At this point, it's straight from the Onion, huh?
Personally, I don't even care so much about living 2 years less in good health than women, or 4 years in total. Whatever, I live in a privileged country with good access to health services. But please, don't make a "boohoo, poor women" story out of data that shows men at a disadvantage.
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