Self-rated health in European countries – determining factors
(2014) NEKP01 20142Department of Economics
- Abstract
- Self-rated health (SRH) is an internationally known concept in epidemiological research. It is considered as an efficacious way of determining the overall health of individuals and population. While the association between self-rated health and mortality has been well documented, since SRH also encompasses a subjective element where attitudes, perceptions and psychosocial factors are active more research needs to be done to fully understand what SRH is composed of. This paper aims to identify key variables in the determination of SRH with a special interest in social networks representing subjective elements of health using an ordered probit model with data on people aged 50+ from the SHARE study wave 4, from 16 European countries. Results... (More)
- Self-rated health (SRH) is an internationally known concept in epidemiological research. It is considered as an efficacious way of determining the overall health of individuals and population. While the association between self-rated health and mortality has been well documented, since SRH also encompasses a subjective element where attitudes, perceptions and psychosocial factors are active more research needs to be done to fully understand what SRH is composed of. This paper aims to identify key variables in the determination of SRH with a special interest in social networks representing subjective elements of health using an ordered probit model with data on people aged 50+ from the SHARE study wave 4, from 16 European countries. Results reveal that health indicators such as chronic disorder, mobility and Activities of daily living (ADL) have the strongest effect on SRH, followed by health behavior and socio-demographic variables. The social network variables, co-residence of partner and child and adjacency shorter than 1 km to child, are more difficult to interpret due to ambiguous output results, but in general display a positive effect. The associations of the social network variables and the health behavior variables smoking and drinking together also differentiate between countries. Therefore, more research needs to be done encompassing these specific variables. (Less)
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- author
- Gashi, Lumnie LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKP01 20142
- year
- 2014
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Self-rated health, SHARE, Ordered probit model, Health determinants, Cross-sectional data
- language
- English
- id
- 4730507
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- 2014-11-07 14:32:59
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