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| Health-related behaviors and the benefits of marriage for elderly persons | | Author(s) | Barbara Steinberg Schone, Robin M Weinick |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 38, no 5, October 1998 |
| Pages | pp 618-627 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Preventative medicine ; Marital status ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | With the continuing ageing of the US population, identifying the factors associated with adverse health outcomes in the older population is becoming increasingly important. The authors investigate the relationship between health behaviours, marital status, and gender in older people. Logistic regression models are estimated, to determine the factors that affect the likelihood of undertaking healthy behaviours. Using data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, it is found that marriage has positive impacts on health behaviours on the older population and that, when these effects differ by gender, they tend to be larger for older men than for older women. These results extend earlier findings showing that marriage encourages healthy behaviours for a younger population, and demonstrate that these benefits continue later in life. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990309009 A |
| Classmark | CC: LK2: SLM: 3F: 7T |
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