BACKGROUND Nearly one-in-ten Sri Lankans are employed abroad as International migrant workers (IMW). Very little is known about the mental health of adult members in families left-behind. This study aimed to explore the impact of economic migration on mental health (common mental disorders) of left-behind families in Sri Lanka. METHODS A cross-sectional survey using multistage sampling was co...

background and purpose: social support is considered as a facilitator of health behaviors in women. this study aimed to evaluate and compare the status of social support and its associated dimensions in pregnant and non-pregnant women. methods: this analytical study was conducted on 310 pregnant and non-pregnant women referring to the health-care centers of zarqan city in shiraz, iran in 2011. ...

QUESTION: What are the experiences of family carers after placing a spouse in a care home? Design Grounded theory. A municipality in southern Sweden. Participants 12 spouses {8 wives and 4 husbands}* who had placed a partner in a care home within the past 6–12 months. Methods In semistructured interviews, participants were asked about their experiences after admitting a spouse to a care home. I...

This paper estimates the degree of altruism among spouses by examining how often the driver of a car sacrifices his or her own self in a car crash in order to save a spouse. Holding constant the magnitude of a collision, a driver can maneuver the car to distribute the risk from collision between the driver and a passenger. We quantify spousal altruism by the degree to which drivers riding with ...

Introduced into the Social Security program in 1939, spouse and survivor benefits have important implications for the retirement experience of women. At the end of 2005, 12.9 million women Social Security beneficiaries aged 62 or older (59 percent) received at least part of their benefit as wives or widows of entitled workers.1 For these women, a spouse or widow benefit provided a larger paymen...

Joint life insurance policies can be issued to married couples so that the insurance payoff is due at the time of the first death of a spouse (joint-life policy) or the second death of a spouse (last survivor policy). In recent years, a certain attention in the actuarial industry has been attracted to the latter. These policies are generally used by older couples for estate tax purposes and car...

Involving the spouse as a co-therapist made no significant difference to the outcome of treatment in a controlled study of 19 married patients suffering from agoraphobia who were engaged in short-term home-based behavioural treatment. Improvement continued to 6-month follow-up. The marriages of those with some marital difficulties at the start tended to improve, whether or not the spouse was in...

How resources from development or social programs are allocated within the household is important for welfare. Intra-household resource allocation does not only depend on who receives and allocates resources, but also whether disclosed to other members. In patrilineal societies in rural Tanzania, like one we selected this study, expect disclosure of available have a stronger effect women’s deci...