{"id":763,"date":"2026-04-09T17:47:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/?p=763"},"modified":"2026-05-19T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:35:38","slug":"ctmh-affiliate-featured-in-media-coverage-on-gender-differences-in-health-after-spousal-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/2026\/04\/09\/ctmh-affiliate-featured-in-media-coverage-on-gender-differences-in-health-after-spousal-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Lives Get Worse After Spousal Loss, Women\u2019s Lives Generally Get Healthier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"379\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/koichiro-shiba\/\">Koichiro Shiba<\/a>, a professor of Epidemiology, was featured in coverage by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Women&#8217;s Health<\/span><\/span> titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/health\/a70802920\/spousal-loss-poor-health-men\/\">Men\u2019s Lives Get Worse After Spousal Loss, Women\u2019s Lives Generally Get Healthier<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"381\" data-end=\"619\">The article highlights research showing that men tend to experience declines in physical and mental health after losing a spouse, while women often report stable or even improved well-being over time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"381\" data-end=\"619\"><span>\u201cThe effect of spousal loss on well-being is likely a product of psychological reactions to losing one\u2019s loved one, disruptive changes in social connectedness, and other social environments that may modify the effects of spousal loss,\u201d says\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/koichiro-shiba\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/koichiro-shiba\/\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"Koichiro Shiba, PhD\" data-node-id=\"19.1\" class=\"body-link css-1e57p3n emevuu60\" rel=\"noopener\">Koichiro Shiba, PhD<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"381\" data-end=\"619\">IMAGE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/health\/a70802920\/spousal-loss-poor-health-men\/\">Women&#8217;s Health<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koichiro Shiba, a professor of Epidemiology, was featured in coverage by Women&#8217;s Health titled \u201cMen\u2019s Lives Get Worse After Spousal Loss, Women\u2019s Lives Generally Get Healthier.\u201d The article highlights research showing that men tend to experience declines in physical and mental health after losing a spouse, while women often report stable or even improved well-being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ctmh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}