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Patterns of Widowhood Mortality

Author(s) -

Allison R. Sullivan,

Andrew Fenelon

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

the journals of gerontology series b

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1758-5368

pISSN - 1079-5014

DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbt079

Subject(s) - spouse , demography , socioeconomic status , disadvantaged , health and retirement study , longevity , marital status , mortality rate , social support , proportional hazards model , hazard ratio , gerontology , psychology , medicine , population , sociology , social psychology , confidence interval , economics , surgery , anthropology , economic growth

Becoming widowed is a known risk factor for mortality. This article examines the magnitude of, explanations for, and variation in the association between widowhood and mortality. Previous research on widowhood mortality has revealed variation by socioeconomic status (SES), in that SES is not protective in widowhood, and by gender, such that men's mortality increases more than women's mortality after the death of spouse.

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