Life With and Without Disease: Women Experience More of Both Eileen M. Crimmins, PhD Jung Ki Kim, PhD Aaron Hagedorn, BS SUMMARY. This paper examines gender differences in life with and without six major diseases, including both mortal and morbid conditions. Disease prevalence and health behavior data are from the 1993-1995 Na- tional Health Interview Surveys for the United States. Vital registration data are the source of mortality rates used in computing life expectancy. The Sullivan method is used to estimate life lived with and without disease and risky behavior for men and women at various ages. Women live more years with each of the diseases examined, and, for arthritis, the extended years with disease are greatest. Women also live more years than men free of each of these diseases with the exception of arthritis. Gender differences in life without two health-risk behaviors are also discussed. Men spend more years of their lives overweight and have fewer years during which they see a doctor. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Deliv- ery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: Eileen M. Crimmins is Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology and Sociology at the Andrus Gerontology Center of the University of Southern California, and Director of the USC/UCLA Center on Biodemography and Population Health, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0191. Jung Ki Kim is a post doctoral fellow at the Andrus Gerontology Center of the Univer- sity of Southern California. Aaron Hagedorn is a doctoral student in the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology of the University of Southern California. [Haworth co-indexing entry note]: “Life With and Without Disease: Women Experience More of Both.” Crimmins, Eileen M., Jung Ki Kim, and Aaron Hagedorn. Co-published simultaneously in Journal of Women & Aging (The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol. 14, No. 1/2, 2002, pp. 47-59; and: Health Expectations for Older Women: International Perspectives (ed: Sarah B. Laditka) The Haworth Press, Inc., 2002, pp. 47-59. Single or multiple copies of this article are available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service [1-800-HAWORTH 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (EST). E-mail address: getinfo@haworthpressinc.com].  2002 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. 47