Work is good for your health?

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Work is good for your health?
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Mon, 05-15-2006 - 5:25am

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=43421
Working Mothers Healthier Than Full-time Housewives

Main Category: Women's Health / OBGYN News
Article Date: 15 May 2006 - 1:00am (PDT)

According to new research carried out in Britain, working mothers enjoy better health than full-time housewives. Despite the stress working mothers face by holding down a job, dealing with childcare, housework and striving to keep the family happy.

It appears that working mothers, when compared to full-time housewives, are less likely to become overweight, have a better level of health and a healthier relationship. The study also found that single mothers experience worse health than working mothers who have a partner and children.

You can read about this study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

Team leader, Dr. Anne McMunn, University College London, said that women who combine work with children and marriage do seem to have better health than full-time housewives. Even though they may experience high levels of stress sometimes.

It is not a question of chicken-and-egg either. Dr. McMunn said it is the experience of work plus having a family that brings on the better health, not the fact that only healthier mothers decide to carry on working.

The researchers examined data on women born in 1946 from the Medical Research Council's National Study of Health and Development. The data registers their health from 1946 until they are 54. Women's health was examined, with the help of a questionnaire at the ages of 26 through to 54. Every decade, the questionnaire collects data on each woman's work history, whether she is/was married, has children, her height and weight.

The healthiest women were the ones who had all three of the following:

-- A Partner
-- Children
-- A job

Those reporting the worst health were stay-at-home mothers, followed by childless women and single mothers.

38% of stay-at-home mothers were obese when they reached their 50s, for working mothers the percentage was 23%.

Written by: Christian Nordqvist
Editor: Medical News Today

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 12:48pm
My hospital covers PT'ers and I'm one of them. I get medical. Not covered for dental or prescription but I get that through DH.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 12:49pm

You thought wrong, as that would be another incorrect conclusion.


PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 12:50pm
No, never said that. The other poster said 25.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 12:50pm

<<Are you talking about more than one nets in a month? >>


How much of a net income are you willing to go?

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 12:53pm
I missed the part where Sweden and Canada suddenly merged.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 12:54pm

PumpkinAngel

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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 12:55pm
The gap between "eligible for Medicaid" and "able to afford health insurance" is quite large. For a family of 4 in CA (where COL is higher than anywhere else on average) the max income to qualify for Medi-Cal is $2217 a month. So, say you make $2500 a month. You work hard. Your mortgage and or rent is at least $800 (because in CA, you aren't going to find anything cheaper than that) so you have $1700 left over for food, utilities, AND health insurance. Heck, even if you make $3500 a month, it is unlikely you will be able to afford health insurance out of pocket.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 12:55pm
If you're implying that Floridian and Cubans could be compared to you and your next door neighbor, you are dead wrong.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 12:56pm
In most places it is something like 1000-1500 a month for basic coverage.
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Wed, 06-07-2006 - 12:57pm
He can be to blame, he can hate the US all he wants, that doesn't give him the means to be a threat.

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