Publications

Bereavement and Caregiver Burden

N.A. Christakis and P.D. Allison, "Inter-Spousal Mortality Effects: Caregiver Burden Across the Spectrum of Disabling Disease," in D. Cutler et al., eds., Health in Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, in press

K.P. Smith and N.A. Christakis, "Association Between Widowhood and Risk of Diagnosis with Sexually Transmitted Infection in Older Adults," American Journal of Public Health 99(11): 2055-2062 (November 2009) MS#103

L. Jin and N.A. Christakis, "Investigating the Mechanism of Marital Mortality Reduction: The Transition to Widowhood and Quality of Health Care," Demography 46(3): 605-625 (August 2009) MS#100

F. Elwert and N.A. Christakis, "Variation in the Effect of Widowhood on Mortality by the Causes of Death of Both Spouses," American Journal of Public Health  98(11): 2092-2098 (November 2008) MS#092

F. Elwert and N.A. Christakis, "Wives and Ex-Wives: A New Test for Homogamy Bias in the Widower Effect," Demography  45(4): in press (November 2008) MS#091

W. Cadge, J. Freese, and N.A. Christakis, "The Provision of Hospital Chaplaincy in the United States: A National Overview," Southern Medical Journal  101(6): 626-630 (June 2008) MS#085

S.V. Subramanian, F. Elwert, and N.A. Christakis, "Widowhood and Mortality Among the Elderly: The Modifying Role of Neighborhood Concentration of Widowed Individuals," Social Science and Medicine  66(4): 873-884 (February 2008) MS#081

K. Zivin and N.A. Christakis, "The Emotional Toll of Spousal Morbidity and Mortality," American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 15(9): 772-779 (September 2007)
MS#079

F. Elwert and N.A. Christakis, "Widowhood and Race," ASR: American Sociological Review  71(1): 16-41 (February 2006) MS#073 (For supplementary online material about this paper, click here.)

N.A. Christakis and P.D. Allison, "Mortality After the Hospitalization of a Spouse," New England Journal of Medicine  354(7): 719-730 (February 2006) MS#072

T.J. Iwashyna and N.A. Christakis, "Marriage, Widowhood, and Health Care Use," Social Science and Medicine  57(11): 2137-2147  (December 2003) MS#063

N.A. Christakis and T.J. Iwashyna, "The Health Impact on Families of Health Care: A Matched Cohort Study of Hospice Use by Decedents and Mortality Outcomes in Surviving, Widowed Spouses," Social Science and Medicine  57(3): 465-475 (August 2003) MS#062

K.E. Steinhauser, N.A. Christakis, E.C. Clipp, M. McNeilly, L. McIntyre, and J.A. Tulsky, "Factors Considered Important at the End of Life by Patients, Family, Physicians, and Other Care Providers," JAMA  284(19): 2476-2482 (November 2000) MS#045

K.E. Steinhauser, E.C. Clipp, M. McNeilly,  N.A. Christakis, L.M. McIntyre, and J.A.Tulsky, "In Search of a Good Death: Observations of Patients, Families, and Providers," Annals of Internal Medicine  132(10): 825-832 (May 2000) MS#042

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