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Article: Motor vehicle deaths among men: marital status, gender and social integration.(Report)
- Article from:
- International Journal of Men's Health
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of marital status on mortality from motor vehicle accidents among men. The framework for the analysis was social integration and control theory. The sample comprised 450,483 men and women from the United States who were followed for a period of nine years. Cox Regression models were fitted to the data. During the follow-up period, 596 persons died from motor vehicle accidents. Divorced and separated persons were over 62 percent more likely to die from motor vehicle accidents than were their married counterparts. Men were nearly 2.6 times as likely to die from motor vehicle crashes as women. Education was a strong ...