Spousal similarity

To clarify the importance of mate cardiometabolic risk factors for similarity of environmental factors, it is necessary to examine whether they are observed in random male-female pairs while maintaining the age of the spousal pairs. This study aimed to determine whether the similarities found between spousal pairs for cardiometabolic risks were also observed between random male-female pairs.

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Poor health and health behaviors are associated with divorce. This study investigates the degree to which six health indicators and health behaviors among husbands and wives are prospectively related to divorce, and whether spousal similarities in these factors are related to a reduced risk of marital dissolution.

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In many French-speaking African countries, couples traditionally do not discuss reproduc- tion. DHS results show that in French-speaking African countries spousal communication about family planning is minimal. For example, the most recent Senegal DHS shows that only one-quarter of men who know about family planning discussed it with their wives even once in the year before the survey. Similarly, in Niger only one-quarter of husbands dis- cussed family planning with their wives during the previous year; and in Cameroon, only 39%. To stay healthy, partners must cooperate.

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