MARITAL-STATUS AND HEALTH AMONG THE ELDERLY
MARITAL-STATUS AND HEALTH AMONG THE ELDERLY
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DOI：
10.1016/0277-9536(94)00281-w
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发表时间：
1995-06-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
WEINSTEIN, R
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作者：
GOLDMAN, N;KORENMAN, S;WEINSTEIN, R
许多研究都证明，在所有年龄组中，已婚者相对于未婚者的寿命更长。然而，这些研究未能确定已婚老年人所经历的优势是否主要来自年轻时的选择和因果过程。本文采用老龄化纵向研究（1984-1990）的数据，探讨婚姻状况是否继续对老年人的健康和死亡率产生任何影响。在基线调查中存在一套广泛的健康状况控制措施的情况下，使用一系列逻辑模型来确定：（1）婚姻状况对老年男性和老年女性残疾和死亡率的影响程度;（2）老年人的社会环境和经济状况在多大程度上可以解释婚姻状况造成的现有残疾和死亡率差异。
Many studies have documented a longevity advantage for married persons relative to their unmarried counterparts in all age groups. However, these studies have failed to determine whether the advantage experienced by married elderly persons arises mostly from selection and causal processes which operated at younger ages. This paper employs data from the Longitudinal Study of Aging (1984-1990) to explore whether marital status continues to exert any influence on health and mortality at the older ages. In the presence of an extensive set of controls for health status at the baseline survey, a series of logistic models are used to determine: (1) the magnitude of marital status effects on disability and on mortality, among older males and older females; and (2) the extent to which the social environment and economic status of the elderly can account for the existing disability and mortality differences by marital status.