Widowhood: the social and economic consequences
Monography
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| MedCarib
| ID: med-16601
Biblioteca responsável:
TT5
Localização: TT5; HQ 1059.5 L29 M629 1989
ABSTRACT
Widowhood marks an important point in the life cycle of many older women and is a reality with which the majority of women in Jamaica can expect to contend in their old age. The reasons are that women tend to outlive their spouses (life expectancy was 72.6 years for women and 68.1 years for men in 1982), and that wives are typically younger than their husbands and therefore have a greater probability of outliving them. Consequently, there are more widows than widowers in Jamaican society, and the same holds true not only for Jamaica but for most developing and developed countries. .... This paper intends to show that Jamaican women over the age of 60 years suffer severe hardships socially and especially economically as widows (AU)
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Base de dados:
MedCarib
Assunto principal:
Ajustamento Social
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Problemas Sociais
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Serviço Social
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Mulheres
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Viuvez
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Jamaica
Tipo de estudo:
Health_economic_evaluation
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Caribe ingles
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Jamaica
Idioma:
En
Tipo de documento:
Monography