The aims of the research I embarked on were: (a) to show the preference of terminal values in personal and in social character as well as the level of religious experience: God's presence and God's absence among singles and married couples; and (b) to show the relation between terminal values in personal and in social character and religious experience: God's presence and God's absence in two g...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of marital status with risk of motor vehicle driver injury. DESIGN A cohort study with prospective and retrospective outcomes. SETTING New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS A total of 10,525 adults (a volunteer sample of a multi-industry workforce, n = 8008; and a random sample of urban electoral rolls, n = 2517). EXPOSURE VARIABLE: Self reported marital statu...

PURPOSE To investigate the relation between marital status and survival. DATA SOURCES The US 1989 national health interview survey (NHIS) merged with the 1997 US national death index. RESULTS Among 1989 NHIS respondents, 5876 (8.77%) died before 1997 and 61 123 (91.23%) were known to be alive. Controlling for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, the death rate for people who were ...

tions to address vitamin A deficiency (by increasing frequent low-level vitamin A intakes) together with continued targeted use of high-dose VACs for those who would benefit. However, we would again like to stress that, since VACs are distributed to 1–5-year-old children, they are not relevant to the majority of under 5-year-old deaths (U5MR), which are predominantly in the first few months of ...

Overall, unmarried (divorced • or never married) women aged 25–64 years are more likely to be uninsured (21%) than married women (13%) in the same age group. Poor married women are • more likely to be uninsured than poor unmarried women, in part because they are less likely to have Medicaid coverage. Married women are more likely • to have private insurance, and less likely to have Medicaid, th...