Health-related behaviors and the benefits of marriage for elderly persons
Health-related behaviors and the benefits of marriage for elderly persons
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DOI：
10.1093/geront/38.5.618
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发表时间：
1998-10-01
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影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Weinick, RM
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作者：
Schone, BS;Weinick, RM
本文探讨老年人健康行为与婚姻状况、性别的关系。我们估计逻辑回归模型，以确定影响采取健康行为的可能性的因素。利用1987年全国医疗支出调查的数据，我们发现，婚姻对老年人的健康行为有积极的影响，当这些影响因性别而异时，老年男性的影响往往大于老年女性。这些结果扩展了早期的研究结果，表明婚姻鼓励年轻人的健康行为，并证明这些好处在以后的生活中继续存在。
In this article, we investigate the relationship between health behaviors, marital status, and gender in the elderly population. We estimate logistic regression models to determine the factors that affect the likelihood of undertaking healthy behaviors. Using data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, we find that marriage has positive impacts on health behaviors in the elderly population and that, when these effects differ by gender, they tend to be larger for elderly men than for elderly women. These results extend earlier findings showing that marriage encourages healthy behaviors for a younger population and demonstrate that these benefits continue later in life.