Marital status, labour force activity and mortality: a study in the USA and six European countries.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Labour force activity and marriage share some pathways through which they potentially influence health. In this paper, we examine whether marriage and labour force participation interact in the way they influence mortality in the USA and six European countries.

Methods

We used data from the US National Health Interview Survey linked to the National Death Index, and national mortality registry data for Austria, England/Wales, Finland, Hungary, Norway and Spain (specifically, the Basque country) during 1999-2007, for men and women aged 30-59 years at baseline. We used Poisson regression to estimate both the additive (relative excess risk due to interaction) and multiplicative interactions between marriage and labour force activity on mortality.

Results

Labour force

SUBMITTER: Van Hedel K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4673396 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature