Health Demand and Health Determinants in China This paper identifies health determinants in rural and urban China. Using the 2000 wave of the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find that education has an important positive effect on health. We also find that region is an important determinant of health. Our results indicate that the self-reported health status is not significantly different ...

BACKGROUND Marital status is viewed as an independent prognostic factor for survival in various cancer types. However, its role in primary liver cancer has yet to be thoroughly explored. OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of marital status on survival outcomes among liver cancer patients. RESULTS We finally identified 40,809 eligible liver cancer patients between 2004 and 2012, including 2...

BACKGROUND Studies from different contexts worldwide indicate that HIV positive patients manifest high-risk sexual behavior characterized by fertility intentions, multiple sexual partners, non-use of contraceptives and non-disclosure of HIV status to their sex partners. The objective was to analyze fertility desires among persons living with HIV at a treatment centre in Kabale Hospital, Southwe...

A s of 2010, there were more than 14 million widowed persons in the U.s. population—nearly 3 million men and well more than 11 million women (U.s. Bureau of the Census, 2012, Table 57). About 13% of men and 40% of women aged 65 and older, and 57% of women aged 75 and older, are widows. This is, of course, just a single snapshot in time; nearly half of the population necessarily experience widow...

OBJECTIVE Most people who die by suicide never seek help, particularly members of ethnic minorities. This study compared the prevalence of contacts with mental health services, types of services accessed and factors related to help-seeking behaviors by Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. METHOD All suicides by Indigenous and non-Indigenous persons from Queensland, Australia, during the...

,1LTHOT-GH 3 out of every 4 persons aged 65 or over did not work in 1962, earnings were the largest single source of income in that year for aged persons and their spouses-32 percent of their total income-according to the findings of the 1963 Survey of the Aged. The next most important source of the money income of nonmarried persons aged 65 or over and married couples with one or both members ...

BACKGROUND We have investigated a strategy for identifying and counseling carriers of recessively inherited disorders in developing countries where consanguineous marriage is common. In such communities, gene variants are trapped within extended families, so that an affected child is a marker of a group at high genetic risk. METHODS Fifteen large Pakistani families, 10 with a history of a hem...

BACKGROUND being unmarried is associated with worse health and increased mortality risk. Telomere length has emerged as a marker for biological ageing but it is unclear how telomere length relates to marital status. OBJECTIVE to examine the relationship between telomere length and marital status in a sample of middle-aged adults. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS cross-sectional analysis among 321 adults...

OBJECTIVE This study examines the degree to which a married individual's health habits and use of preventive medical care are influenced by his or her spouse's behaviors. STUDY DESIGN Using longitudinal data on individuals and their spouses, we examine changes over time in the health habits of each person as a function of changes in his or her spouse's health habits. Specifically, we analyze ...

BACKGROUND To examine the effect of time on suicide after bereavement among widowed persons. METHOD The data were extracted from Swiss mortality statistics for the period 1987-2005. The time between bereavement and subsequent death, specifically by suicide, was determined by linkage of individual records of married persons. The suicide rates and the standardized mortality ratios in the first ...