TY - RPRT T1 - The Impact of Poor Health Behaviors on Workforce Disability Y1 - 2003 A1 - Richardson, Caroline R. A1 - Jennifer T. Hanlon A1 - Hillary J. Mull A1 - Sandeep Vijan A1 - Rodney A. Hayward A1 - Linda A. Wray A1 - Kenneth M. Langa KW - Disabilities KW - Health Behavior KW - Labor force participation KW - Older Adults AB - The effects of poor health habits on mortality have been studied extensively. However, few studies have examined the impact of these health behaviors on workforce disability. In the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative cohort of 6044 Americans who were between the ages of 51 and 61 and who were working in 1992, we found that both baseline smoking status and a sedentary lifestyle predict workforce disability six years later. If this relationship is causal, cost-benefit analyses of health behavior intervention that neglect workforce disability may substantially underestimate the benefits of such interventions. PB - University of Michigan Retirement Research Center CY - Ann Arbor UR - https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/7189096.pdf ER - TY - JOUR T1 - It takes two: marriage and smoking cessation in the middle years. JF - J Aging Health Y1 - 2002 A1 - Melissa M Franks A1 - Pienta, Amy M. A1 - Linda A. Wray KW - Female KW - Health Behavior KW - Humans KW - Male KW - Marital Status KW - Marriage KW - Middle Aged KW - Smoking cessation KW - Social Support KW - Spouses AB -

OBJECTIVES: In this prospective study of smoking cessation among married individuals in midlife we examine correspondence in the change of each partner's smoking status with that of the other, independent of established psychosocial correlates of smoking cessation.

METHODS: Using longitudinal data from the first two waves of the Health and Retirement Study, 1992-1994, hierarchical logistic regression models were estimated for married male and female smokers separately.

RESULTS: Findings support our hypothesis of correspondence in the smoking cessation of married male and female smokers net of other sociodemographic, health, and health behavior characteristics.

DISCUSSION: These findings suggest that initiation and maintenance of this positive lifestyle change may be more easily achieved when both marital partners are given information and support to quit smoking at the same time.

PB - 14 VL - 14 IS - 3 U1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12146510?dopt=Abstract U4 - Smoking Cessation ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Impact of Education and Heart Attack on Smoking Cessation Among Middle-aged Adults JF - Journal of Health and Social Behavior Y1 - 1998 A1 - Linda A. Wray A1 - A. Regula Herzog A1 - Robert J. Willis A1 - Robert B Wallace KW - Demographics KW - Health Conditions and Status KW - Methodology AB - Considerable evidence supports the premise that higher levels of education lead to enhanced health, including protective health behaviors. This paper focuses on how education affects one health behavior known to lead to enhanced health: the cessation of smoking. In particular, the authors examine the extent to which education influences the decision by middle-aged adults to quit smoking following a heart attack, a potentially life-threatening health event. We first hypothesize that middle-aged adults with more formal education will stop smoking more readily than people with less formal education following the experience of a heart attack. Second, we ask what other factors might underlie and explain that hypothesized effect. Using longitudinal data, the authors track changes in individual smoking behaviors after a heart attack among preretirement-age Americans. We control for documented correlates of smoking and heart attack plus other factors associated with education, heart attack, and smoking that may also influence whether a person quits smoking. In addition to confirming evidence on the education-health association as well as the documented connection between heart attack and smoking cessation, this study provides a surprising twist on those links: Our results show that the move to quit smoking following the experience of a heart attack among middle-aged adults is significantly and dramatically moderated by their level of educational attainment. PB - 39 VL - 39 IS - 4 U4 - Education/Gender/Health Behavior/Logistic Models/Longitudinal Studies/Middle Age/Multivariate Analysis/Myocardial Infarction/Odds Ratio/Smoking Cessation/Support, U.S. Government--PHS ER -