Assessment of the Relationship between Family, Marriage, and Health (Essay Sample)

ASSESSMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAMILY, MARRIAGE AND HEALTH
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION
Research has shown that family set up, as well as the type of family one is in affect their health. According to (Kiecolt-Glaser and Newton, 2001) male headed households, revelled to have less financial stress. Robles and Kiecolt-Glaser, (2003) making use of a linear regression model on cross-sectional data taken in Italy household survey revealed that, married couples who leaved together showed higher level of stress thus poor health records. Also, Burman and Margolin, (1992) in a household survey in Nigeria making use of regression model revelled that married couples had more health complications due to stress. Wood et.al, (2009) assessed the factors that influence individual health status which was taken as a binary variable of whether one had health issues or not. The study was in US as variables considered included stress levels, relationship with family, age, and gender. Making use cross-sectional data from household surveys, the study revealed that families with better relation scale were less prone to health complications. People who are more aged were also seen to be prone to health complications. Stress was used to describe the marriage institution as research has shown that there is more build-up pressure in marriage (Artazcoz et.al, 2004). Different researchers have made use of cross-sectional data collected making use of questionnaires and interview. They have assessed for the effect of marriage, and family relations on health. The current analyses in sighted by the past research will assess the effect of family relations and marriage on health of individual.
Objective
The current study will be taken