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| Socio-economic status and health among older adults in rural and urban China | | Author(s) | Zachary Zimmer, Julia Kwong |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 16, no 1, February 2004 |
| Pages | pp 44-70 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Economic status [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Social change ; Rural areas ; Urban areas ; Correlation ; China. |
| Annotation | The association between socio-economic status (SES) and health, which has proved to be quite robust, is rarely tested in societies where level of economic development and systems of stratification differ from those in western developed countries. This article examines associations in rural and urban China. Techniques include logit equation estimates of separate and pooled samples. The latter employ interaction terms to test rural and urban effects. Socioeoconomic indicators include those more customarily used in these types of studies (e.g. education) and several that are less traditional (e.g. pension eligibility). Results indicate associations exist in China, with bank savings the strongest predictor, Some unexpected results are also found, including a positive association between SES and chronic conditions (e.g. cardiovascular disease) among older people in urban China. Use of and access to a health care professional might explain part of this anomaly. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040909203 A |
| Classmark | F:W: CC: TMH: RL: RK: 49: 7DC |
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