نتایج جستجو برای: widowhood

تعداد نتایج: 474  

2014
Brian Perry Lennah Oluoch Kawango Agot Jamilah Taylor Jacob Onyango Lilian Ouma Caroline Otieno Christina Wong Amy Corneli

INTRODUCTION The customs of widow cleansing and widow inheritance are practiced in several communities throughout sub-Saharan Africa. In the Nyanza Province of Kenya, according to tradition, Luo widows are expected to engage in sexual intercourse with a "cleanser," without the use of a condom, in order to remove the impurity ascribed to her after her husband's death. Luo couples, including wido...

2007
Marco Albertini Chiara Saraceno MARCO ALBERTINI CHIARA SARACENO

This paper, based on a Multipurpose survey on a large national sample of Italian households which has made possible to analyse parent-child and grandparent-child dyads, explores the impact of marital instability on relationships with adult children and with grandchildren. As in other countries, the impact is more negative in the case of divorce than in case of widowhood and, in both cases, more...

2016
Chu-Shiu Li June Han Lee Ly-yun Chang Chwen-Chi Liu Yan-Lan Chan Christopher Wen Mu-Lin Chiu Min Kuang Tsai Shan Pou Tsai Jackson Pui Man Wai Chwen Keng Tsao Xifeng Wu Chi Pang Wen

Widowhood has been increasingly encountered because of increasing longevity of women, often characterized by social stigmatization and poor physical and mental health. However, applied research to overcome its adversity has been quite limited. The goal of this study is to explore the role of physical activity in improving the health of widows.A cohort of 446,582 adults in Taiwan who successivel...

2012
Katia Sarla Mohindra Slim Haddad Delampady Narayana

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND The health and well-being of widows in India is an important but neglected issue of public health and women's rights. We investigate the lives of Indian women as they become widows, focussing on the causes of their husband's mortality and the ensuing consequences of these causes on their own lives and identify the opportunities and challenges that widows face in living ...

Journal: :The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 2013

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