Healthcare Work in Marriage: How Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Spouses Encourage and Coerce Medical Care
| Autor: | Lauren Gebhardt-Kram, Alexandra Kissling, Debra Umberson, Corinne Reczek |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Healthcare use Social Psychology Coercion Health Behavior Medical care Article Sexual and Gender Minorities 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Health care Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Homosexuality Male Marriage Heterosexuality Spouses Gay lesbian 030505 public health business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Homosexuality Female Social Support Physical health Middle Aged Work (electrical) Female Lesbian 0305 other medical science Psychology business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 59:554-568 |
| ISSN: | 2150-6000 0022-1465 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0022146518808718 |
| Popis: | Marriage benefits health in part because spouses promote one another’s well-being, yet how spouses facilitate formal healthcare (e.g., doctor’s visits, emergency care) via what we call healthcare work is unknown. Moreover, like other aspects of the marital-health link, healthcare work dynamics likely vary by gender and couple type. To explore this possibility, we use in-depth interviews with 90 midlife gay, lesbian, and heterosexual spouses to examine how spouses perform healthcare work. Our results show that in heterosexual marriage, women perform the bulk of healthcare work and typically do so in coercive ways. A minority of heterosexual men provide instrumental healthcare work for their wives. Gay and lesbian spouses appear to commonly use both coercive and supportive healthcare work strategies to effectively promote healthcare use. Our findings demonstrate the ways spouses are central to supporting and coercing one another to obtain medical care and how these patterns are gendered. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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