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Health concordance within couples: a systematic review.
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The research overwhelmingly suggests evidence for concordant mental and physical health, as well as health behaviors among couples, and each area of health concordance research offers room for greater research and deeper understanding for the causes of health Concordance.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 2007-06-01. It has received 457 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Concordance & Public health.read more
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Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study
TL;DR: People’s happiness depends on the happiness of others with whom they are connected, providing further justification for seeing happiness, like health, as a collective phenomenon.
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Marital quality and health: A meta-analytic review.
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of published empirical articles describing associations between marital relationship quality and physical health in more than 72,000 individuals found little evidence for gender differences in studies that explicitly tested gender moderation, with the exception of surrogate endpoint studies.
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Advances in Families and Health Research in the 21st Century
Deborah Carr,Kristen W. Springer +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed research on families and health published between 2000 and 2009 and highlight key themes and findings from innovative, methodologically rigorous studies, and pointed out limitations in current research, discuss implications of recent findings for policy, and highlight theoretical and methodological directions for future research.
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Social network determinants of depression
TL;DR: Results showed both low and high CES-D scores (and classification as being depressed) in a given period were strongly correlated with such scores in one's friends and neighbors, and female friends appear to be especially influential in the spread of depression from one person to another.
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The Influence of Partner’s Behavior on Health Behavior Change: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
TL;DR: Men and women are more likely to make a positive health behavior change if their partner does too, and with a stronger effect than if the partner had been consistently healthy in that domain.
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Dyadic Data Analysis
TL;DR: Although the text does give a brief snapshot of the subject, it is lacking in detail, applications, and opportunities for practice, and someone considering becoming involved in a data mining project or teaching an introductory course in the subject would be advised to learn much more.
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Gender, marital status and the social control of health behavior☆
TL;DR: It is hypothesized that marriage may be beneficial to health because many spouses monitor and attempt to control their spouse's health behaviors, and there is some support for the social control and health behavior hypothesis among the married.
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Family status and health behaviors: social control as a dimension of social integration.
TL;DR: Results indicate that marriage and presence of children in the home have a deterrent effect on negative health behaviors, and it is suggested that family roles promote social control of health behaviors which affect subsequent mortality.
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Does Marriage Matter
TL;DR: This work would like to argue that demographers have an opportunity and an obligation to tell people what their decisions about marriage and family potentially mean for them as individuals and to tell them what that decision may mean for themselves as individuals.
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The impact of the family on health: The Decade in Review
TL;DR: In this paper, a tension load cell consisting of an upper liquid chamber and a lower air chamber is used to measure the weight of a suspended load and the load supporting structure on the load cell.