Social Support and Women’s Health

Abstract

Context: Social relations have been found to affect different aspects of people's life. This article is a systematic review of attempts to consider the social support as a major determinant of health during life span. Evidence Acquisition: For our research we retrieved data from the J Store, Springer, Wiley Online Library, Elsevier, Science Direct, PubMed database as well-known sources of scientific studies. The study comprised all studies considering social ties and relationships and health outcomes of both genders in different aspects of medical sociology and social epidemiology, with particular emphasis on comprehensive studies to identify the implications of and the effect of social support on women's health.