The male-female health-survival paradox, also known as the morbidity-mortality paradox or gender paradox, is the phenomenon in which female humans experience...

that of males, despite females having higher morbidity rates (see Health survival paradox). There are many potential reasons for this. Traditional arguments...

The Hispanic paradox is an epidemiological finding that Hispanic Americans tend to have health outcomes that "paradoxically" are comparable to, or in some...

obesity paradox is the finding in some studies of a lower mortality rate for overweight or obese people within certain subpopulations. The paradox has been...

physical weakness. Together these findings indicate the male-female health-survival paradox, since the lifespan of females is longer compared to males, yet...

This list includes well known paradoxes, grouped thematically. The grouping is approximate, as paradoxes may fit into more than one category. This list...

throughout life. This is called the mortality-morbidity paradox, or Health Survival paradox This is explained by an excess of psychological, rather than...

shorter lives. It built a survival curve from family history records kept at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. This result was ignored...

improved at an increased BMI, a phenomenon known as the obesity survival paradox. The paradox was first described in 1999 in overweight and obese people undergoing...

fighting game for the PlayStation video game console. It was developed by Paradox Development and published by Activision on September 18, 2001. It is the...

S2CID 31147785. Tooby, J; Cosmides, Leda (1996). Friendship and the banker's paradox: Other pathways to the evolution of adaptations for altruism. Oxford University...

role-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Paradox Interactive. It was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on...

The paradox of the pesticides is a paradox that states that applying pesticide to a pest may end up increasing the abundance of the pest if the pesticide...

The resource curse, also known as the paradox of plenty or the poverty paradox, is the phenomenon of countries with an abundance of natural resources (such...

even more overdiagnosis. Raffle, Mackie and Gray call this the popularity paradox of screening: "The greater the harm through overdiagnosis and overtreatment...

PMID 37703235. Hart BL, Hart LA, Thigpen AP, Tran A, Bain MJ (May 2018). "The paradox of canine conspecific coprophagy". Veterinary Medicine and Science. 4 (2):...

confusion increases. In severe hypothermia, there may be hallucinations and paradoxical undressing, in which a person removes their clothing, as well as an increased...

subtype with some being curable and treatment prolonging survival in most. The five-year survival rate in the United States for all Hodgkin lymphoma subtypes...

model happiness economics Harrington paradox Harris–Todaro model Harrod–Domar model Hauser's law health economics health insurance A contracted program where...

Samuel Victor (1996). The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism: Paradoxes, Achievements, and Tragedies of Nationhood. McGill-Queen's University...

R (2007). "The Paradox of Helicopter Emergency Training". International Journal of Aviation Psychology. 3 (17). "Welcome to Survival Systems Training...

disability paradox. In addition to ADLs, instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) can be used as a relatively objective measure of health-related...

treatment may involve support groups like Overeaters Anonymous and mental health treatment. The degree to which treatment is necessary varies culturally...

to strictly feminine gender norms. This is known as the "female athlete paradox". Although traditional gender norms are gradually changing, female athletes...

today, which may have contributed to the success of rudist reefs. Darwin's paradox "Coral... seems to proliferate when ocean waters are warm, poor, clear...

Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership (2007). Canada's 21st century paradox : a report for the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethnics in Leadership...

sake of survival) or positive thinking mentality that often (one might even say 'usually' or 'almost always') correlated with long-term survival in the...

argues that advances in certain technologies create new threats to the survival of mankind and that the 21st century may be a critical moment in history...

Center Health inequality in the United Kingdom Healthcare and the LGBT community Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions Immigrant paradox Inequality...

loneliness is a fundamental part of the human condition because of the paradox between people's consciousness desiring meaning in life and the isolation...