Social sequencing to determine patterns in health and work-family trajectories for U.S. women 1968–2013

摘要

BackgroundWomen’s social roles (partnership, parenthood, and worker status) are associated with health, with more roles being associated with lower mortality rates. Few studies have examined social roles using a lifecourse perspective to understand how changing role dynamics affect health over time. Sequence analysis is one analytic technique for examining social trajectories.