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Self-assessed health expectancy among older adults
— a comparison of six Asian settings | | Author(s) | Mary Beth Ofstedal, Zachary Zimmer, Grace Cruz |
| Journal title | Hallym International Journal of Aging, vol 6, no 2, 2004 |
| Pages | pp 95-118 |
| Source | http://baywood.com |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Life expectancy tables ; Comparison ; China ; Indonesia ; Philippines ; Singapore ; Taiwan ; Thailand. |
| Annotation | Self-assessed health has been found to be a strong predictor of changes in health and normality, and has been included in many surveys of health and ageing around the world. In this article, the authors estimate expectancies in self-assessed health at age 60+. and compare them across six Asian countries: China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. Data used in the analysis come from national surveys conducted in the mid-1990s. Self-assessed health is dichotomised into categories reflecting negative versus neutral or positive health ratings. The Sullivan method is used to estimate the years and proportion of remaining life spent in a healthy-self-assessed state by age and sex. Results suggest that patterns of health expectancy by age and sex are similar across the six settings. The patterns are consistent with those from other studies of health expectancy that use different health measures and are based in different regions of the world. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070115219 A |
| Classmark | CC: S7: 48: 7DC: 7XH: 7XK: 7XD: 7DP: 7HG |
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