The Relationship Between Marital Status and Health

Autor:	Bernadette C. Hayes, Pauline M. Prior
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	050502 law Gerontology education.field_of_study business.industry 05 social sciences Population Vulnerability Census Proxy (climate) Bed Occupancy 050501 criminology Marital status Medicine Social care Working age business education Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 0505 law Demography
Zdroj:	Journal of Family Issues. 24:124-148
ISSN:	1552-5481 0192-513X
Popis:	Based on census materials collected in Britain from 1921 to 1991 and using bed occupancy as a proxy for health, this study focuses on the relationship between marriage and physical health. The results confirm the positive association between marriage and physical health within this society. Married people consistently make less use of residential health and social care facilities than do nonmarried people, and this relationship holds across all census years. This is not to deny, however, some important health differences within the nonmarried population, such as the increasing vulnerability of widowed females aged 65 years and older and of never-married males of working age.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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