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SUBMITTER: Lloyd-Sherlock P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5006749 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lloyd-Sherlock Peter P Corso Barbara B Minicuci Nadia N
The journal of development studies 20150914 10
Using data on women aged 50 and over from the WHO's Survey of Ageing and Adult Health for China, Ghana, India, the Russian Federation and South Africa (N=17,009), we assess associations between widowhood and socio-economic, health and quality of life deprivations. We find variations in the prevalence and timing of widowhood across the study countries, and associations between widowhood and being in the poorest wealth quintile for all five countries. For other deprivations, national experiences v ...[more]