Background. Little is known about the impact of marital dissolution and/or marital harmony
on health service use. Objectives. To examine the ways in which marital dissolution and/or …

This study examined effects of widowhood and marital harmony on health, health service
use, and health care costs. The Americans Changing Lives data set contains 694 subjects …

Married persons have consistently been found to be healthier than the nonmarried, with the
nonmarried ranked in order of health from the never-married through the widowed to the …

Background. Evidence for the effects of marital status and marital status change on physical
health is equivocal. Method. Structural equation models examined whether marital status …

This article develops a series of hypotheses about the long-term effects of one's history of
marriage, divorce, and widowhood on health, and it tests those hypotheses using data from …

To test whether the effects of marital status on health differ between never married women
and divorced and sparated women, this study utilizes prospective panel data for a large …

Using a national sample of 1,298 married persons, we examined the effect of a change in
health over a 3-year period on shifts in marital quality. The analysis suggests that …

This study examines the effects of changes of marital status on changes in health status of
elderly respondents over a 14-month interval. Multiple regression is used to examine data …

Limited prospective data have examined the association between living arrangements and
emotional well-being. The authors assessed whether older women living with a spouse …

Although marriage has been shown to have important health-protective consequences, it is
not clear to what extent these effects are due to marriage per se or to the fact that married …