ABSTRACT I investigate whether the marriage advantage in subjective well-being is a true
protective effect vs. being attributable to self-selection into (or out of) marriage based on pre …

Discrete-time hazard regression models were employed to register and census data on 1.4
million Norwegian married couples from 1974-2001 to explore the probability of divorce …

BACKGROUND: It long has been recognized that married patients have improved cancer
survival when compared with unmarried patients. This has been postulated as being due to …

The main aim of this study is to compare the patterning of health by family status and
employment status among women in Finland and Sweden and to explore whether the …

This study explores the impact of health status on marital dissolution for couples in late mid-
life. A key feature of the empirical framework is that it incorporates the interaction of health …

A pioneering book to help maximize the quality of life for chronically ill patients Written by a
leading authority on chronic illness treatment and management, Managing Chronic Illness …

Objectives Married people live longer and are healthier than unmarried people. This can be
explained in terms of marriage protection and marriage selection. The aim of the present …

In this paper, we examine the dynamic relationship between physical and mental health. We
ask whether and to what extent mental health affects subsequent physical health, and …

Introduction Finding a life partner is of great importance for persons' life satisfaction, but
cancer's potential impact on family life is not well described. Cancer's impact on marriage …

This study examined disability trends by marital status among older adults aged 60 and
above from 1997 to 2010 in the US We addressed two questions:(1) Has the relationship …