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Work-family trajectories and the higher cardiovascular risk of American women relative to women in 13 european countries

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  • Van Hedel, K.
  • Mejía-Guevara, I.
  • Avendaño, M.
  • Sabbath, E.L.
  • Berkman, L.F.
  • Mackenbach, J.P.
  • Van Lenthe, F.J.

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Objectives. To investigate whether less-healthy work-family life histories contribute to the higher cardiovascular disease prevalence in older American compared with European women. Methods. We used sequence analysis to identify distinct work-family typologies for women born between 1935 and 1956 in the United States and 13 European countries. Data came from the US Health and Retirement Study (1992-2006) and the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (2004-2009). Results. Work-family typologies were similarly distributed in the United States and Europe. Being a lone working mother predicted a higher risk of heart disease, stroke, and smoking among American women, and smoking for European women. Lone working motherhood was more common and had a marginally stronger association with stroke in the United States than in Europe. Simulations indicated that the higher stroke risk among American women would only be marginally reduced if American women had experienced the same work-family trajectories as European women. Conclusions. Combining work and lone motherhood was more common in the United States, but differences in work-family trajectories explained only a small fraction of the higher cardiovascular risk of American relative to European women. © 2013 American Public Health Association.

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  • Van Hedel, K. & Mejía-Guevara, I. & Avendaño, M. & Sabbath, E.L. & Berkman, L.F. & Mackenbach, J.P. & Van Lenthe, F.J., 2016. "Work-family trajectories and the higher cardiovascular risk of American women relative to women in 13 european countries," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 106(8), pages 1449-1456.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2016.303264_2
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303264
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    1. Banks, James & Brugiavini, Agar & Pasini, Giacomo, 2020. "The powerful combination of cross-country comparisons and life-history data," The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Elsevier, vol. 16(C).
    2. Machů, Vendula & Veldman, Karin & Arends, Iris & Bültmann, Ute, 2022. "Work-family trajectories in young adulthood: Associations with mental health problems in adolescence," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 314(C).
    3. Laura Altweck & Stefanie Hahm & Silke Schmidt & Christine Ulke & Toni Fleischer & Claudia Helmert & Sven Speerforck & Georg Schomerus & Manfred E. Beutel & Elmar Brähler & Holger Muehlan, 2023. "Even Now Women Focus on Family, Men on Work: An Analysis of Employment, Marital, and Reproductive Life-Course Typologies in Relation to Change in Health-Related Quality of Life," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 18(3), pages 1205-1223, June.

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