Schone B S, Weinick R M
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD 20852, USA.
Gerontologist. 1998 Oct;38(5):618-27. doi: 10.1093/geront/38.5.618.
In this article, we investigate the relationship between health behaviors, marital status, and gender in the elderly population. We estimate logistic regression models to determine the factors that affect the likelihood of undertaking healthy behaviors. Using data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey, we find that marriage has positive impacts on health behaviors in the elderly population and that, when these effects differ by gender, they tend to be larger for elderly men than for elderly women. These results extend earlier findings showing that marriage encourages healthy behaviors for a younger population and demonstrate that these benefits continue later in life.
在本文中，我们研究了老年人群体中健康行为、婚姻状况和性别的关系。我们估计逻辑回归模型以确定影响采取健康行为可能性的因素。利用1987年全国医疗支出调查的数据，我们发现婚姻对老年人群体的健康行为有积极影响，并且当这些影响因性别而异时，老年男性的影响往往比老年女性更大。这些结果扩展了早期的研究发现，即婚姻鼓励年轻人群体采取健康行为，并表明这些益处会在晚年持续存在。
