BACKGROUND Living arrangements have changed markedly in recent decades, so we wanted to provide an up-to-date assessment of mortality as a function of marital status and cohabitation status in a complete population. METHODS We studied mortality in a national cohort of 6.5 million Danes followed for 122.5 million person-years during 1982-2011, using continuously updated individual-level inform...

This study investigated the prevalence and risk factors for genital infection with HPV in women from rural and urban areas in two different regions of the Eastern Brazilian Amazon. A cross-sectional survey was performed in Pap screening programs, with a total sample of 444 women (233 urban and 211 rural). Uterine cervical swabs were collected for the detection of HPV DNA with the established PC...

Large numbers of Indo-Fijian women are using marriage agencies and advertisements to find husband in Australia, New Zealand and Canada: this article investigates this new type of arranged marriage. Half of the Pacific island of Fiji are Indo-Fijians who are farmers, professionals, educated and prosperous, but have limited political, educational and land rights relative to the native Fijians. ...

female heads of households are responsible for the material and spiritual needs of the families because of a deceased, missing, separated, divorced, addicted, disabled (permanent or temporary), imprisonment, ill or military deployed male head of households. survey research was employed in the study. the target population includes rural women heads of households razan city. following cochran’s f...

BACKGROUND Although marital status and low occupation level has been associated with mortality, the relationship with case fatality rates (CFR) after a coronary event (CE) is unclear. This study explored whether incidence of CE and short-term CFR differ between groups defined in terms of marital status and occupation, and if this could be explained by biological and life-style risk factors. M...

• The dropouts occurred within the first two months of treatment. dropout risk was higher for women with lower GD severity. psychopathological distress. relapses were registered throughout frequency divorced non-strategic gambling. Background : Gender-specific literature focused on gambling disorder (GD) is scarce, and have been understudied. Therefore, aim this study to estimate short-term eff...

We investigate divorce as a turning point for women’s earnings trajectories and whether those patterns have changed over recent decades. We use a unique data set that links retrospective family history data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation to longitudinal earnings records from the Social Security Administration. Using a panel fixedeffects model, we retrospectively compare wom...

Abstract The main objective of this paper is to assess the determinants and challenges economic achievement for women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia. study used 698 sample selected randomly from a total 2450 respondents. data were analyzed using descriptive statistics multiple linear regression models. results revealed that there high rate divorced (30%) widowed (41%) area. show educational level, f...

BACKGROUND In recent years, an increase in the prevalence of sexual abuse of women has been reported in Canada and elsewhere. However, there are few empirical data on the extent of the problem in Canadian aboriginal populations. The authors investigated the presence of a reported history of sexual abuse and other health determinants in a sample of women attending a community health centre with ...

Individual differences in exposure and response to stress in a sample of 56 divorced mothers were examined. Compared with normative data, the sample reported significantly more negative life events, more psychiatric symptoms, and poorer social adjustment. Social support and income emerged as the mediating factors most strongly associated with adjustment outcome.