Kail Ben Lennox, Acosta Katie L, Wright Eric R
All of the authors are with the Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
Am J Public Health. 2015 Jun;105(6):1101-5. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302589. Epub 2015 Apr 16.
We assessed the association between the health of people in same-sex relationships and the degree and nature of the legal recognition of same-sex relationships offered in the states in which they resided.
We conducted secondary data analyses on the 2010 to 2013 Current Population Survey and publicly available data from Freedom to Marry, Inc. We estimated ordered logistic regression models in a 4-level framework to assess the impact of states' legal stances toward same-sex marriage on self-assessed health.
Our findings indicated, relative to states with antigay constitutional amendments, that same-sex couples living in states with legally sanctioned marriage reported higher levels of self-assessed health.
Our findings suggested that full legal recognition of same-sex relationships through marriage might be an important legal and policy strategy for improving the health of same-sex couples.
我们评估了同性伴侣关系中人们的健康状况与他们所居住州对同性伴侣关系的法律认可程度及性质之间的关联。
我们对2010年至2013年的当前人口调查以及来自“婚姻自由”组织的公开数据进行了二次数据分析。我们在一个四级框架中估计有序逻辑回归模型，以评估各州对同性婚姻的法律立场对自我评估健康状况的影响。
我们的研究结果表明，与存在反同性恋宪法修正案的州相比，生活在同性婚姻得到法律认可的州的同性伴侣自我评估健康水平更高。
我们的研究结果表明，通过婚姻对同性伴侣关系给予全面法律认可可能是改善同性伴侣健康状况的一项重要法律和政策策略。
