Marriage, cohabitation, and men's use of preventive health care services

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• Personal Author:
  Blumberg, Stephen J. ; Vahratian, Anjel ; Blumberg, Joseph H.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 2014-1209 ; Previous research has demonstrated that married men are more likely than not-married men to seek preventive health care services because their spouses encourage them to do so (1,2). It was not known, however, whether cohabiting partners of not-married men play a health-promoting role similar to that of spouses. With data from the 2011-2012 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), selected measures of preventive health care service use were compared for three groups of men aged 18-64: married men (defined as those living with a spouse), cohabiting men (defined as those living with a partner who is not a spouse), and other not-married men. The consistency of observed differences by age and health insurance coverage status was also investigated. ; Suggested citation: Blumberg SJ, Vahratian A, Blumberg JH. Marriage, cohabitation, and men's use of preventive health care services. NCHS data brief, no 154. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2014. ; CS248186
• Subjects:
  • Marital Status
  • Men's Health
  • Patient Acceptance of Health Care
  • Preventive Health Services/Utilization
• Source:
  National Health Interview Survey
• Series:
  NCHS Data Briefs
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  7 pdf pages
• Issue:
  154
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/23480/cdc_23480_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 360.80 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
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