Cohabitation and marital status as predictors of mortality - An eight year follow-up study

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 673-679

  Lund, Rikke ^a   Due, Pernille ^a   Modvig, Jens ^b   Holstein, Bjørn Evald ^a   Damsgaard, Mogens Trab ^a   Andersen, Per Kragh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cohabitation status; Denmark; Health behaviour; Marital status; Mortality; Social relations; Social support

Indexed keywords

COHABITATION; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RISK;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COITUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE PERSON; SPOUSES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

DENMARK;

EID: 0036289692     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00219-2     Document Type: Article

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