Zdraví a rodinný stav: dvě strany jedné mince?

• Authors: Dana Hamplová

Title variants

EN

Health and Marital Status: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article focuses on the link between marital status and health and presents an overview of the theories and empirical studies that are devoted to this issue. The article examines the issues of selection and causality, the importance of the quality of a union, gender differences, marital and partnership histories, and social context. It shows that, while the link between marital status and mortality or physical and mental health is well documented in the literature, the relative significance of causality and selection is still under discussion. The contemporary literature does not even have a clear answer yet for the question of how much the link between marital status and health is mediated by institutional factors.

Keywords

EN

health; family; social inequality in health; marital status; marriage

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 737–755

Contributors

author

Dana Hamplová

• Sociologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Rep.