Marriage, widowhood, and health-care use

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2137-2147

  Iwashyna, Theodore J ^a,b   Christakis, Nicholas A ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Health; Health care use; Marriage; Mortality; USA; Widowhood

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; HEALTH CARE; MARRIAGE;

AGED; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; PREDICTION; SPOUSE; WIDOW;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141682111     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00546-4     Document Type: Article

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