Open AccessMarital status and mortality in British women: a longitudinal study
Author(s) -
Yin Bun Cheung
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/29.1.93
Subject(s) - marital status , demography , proportional hazards model , gerontology , hazard ratio , longitudinal study , medicine , covariate , excess mortality , epidemiology , selection bias , psychology , mortality rate , population , confidence interval , statistics , surgery , mathematics , pathology , sociology
Most previous studies on marital status and mortality did not adjust for the effect of 'marital selection'. Little research has been done about the relation between marital status and mortality in British women, with the exception of research on bereavement.