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widow: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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widow1 CONSTRUCTWidowhoodELWERT · BEREAVEMENT

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Demography & public health

A spouse left after a death

In demography and public health, a widow is a person whose spouse has died, and widowhood is studied as a life-course transition with measurable consequences for health, income, and survival. Elwert and Christakis's 2008 analysis in the American Journal of Public Health documented the “widowhood effect,” an elevated risk of death in the surviving spouse that varies by the cause of the partner's death. The referent is a bereaved individual and the social state of having lost a spouse, unrelated to an African songbird or a typesetting fault, beyond the shared name.[1]

Unit
The marital-status transition from married to bereaved, and its mortality and well-being effects
Recovery means
Some widows re-partner or remarry; bereavement effects on health typically attenuate over time
Measured by
Tracked through marital-status records, cohort survival analysis, and health and income surveys

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References

  1. Elwert, F., & Christakis, N. A. (2008). The effect of widowhood on mortality by the causes of death of both spouses. American Journal of Public Health, 98(11), 2092–2098. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2007.114348

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