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| Social and gender inequalities in depressive symptoms among urban older adults of Latin America and the Caribbean | | Author(s) | Beatriz Eugenia Alvarado, Maria Victoria Zunzunegui, François Béland |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 62B, no 4, July 2007 |
| Pages | pp S226-S237 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Older men ; Older women ; Poor elderly ; Urban areas ; Social surveys ; South America ; Central America ; West Indies. |
| Annotation | Data from the SABE study (Salud, Bienestar y Envejecimiento) - the Health, Wellbeing and Aging project in seven large cities in Latin America and the Caribbean - were used for analyses of the associations between depressive symptomatology and socioeconomic conditions and health indicators in childhood, adulthood and old age. The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) was used to classify respondents with high levels of depressive symptoms. The prevalence of depression in the urban population of Latin America was relatively low, ranging from 0.4% to 5.2% for men and from 0.3% to 9.5% in women. Women were more exposed to social and material disadvantage during their life course than men, but were not more vulnerable to them than men. Current socioeconomic conditions and health status as well as functional disabilities mainly accounted for gender differences in the prevalence of depression. Additionally, poor health and hunger during childhood, as well as illiteracy or lack of education were associated with depression in both men and women. Cumulative life course exposure to social and material disadvantage and current material, social and health conditions explain the higher frequency of depression in women. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080305219 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: BC: BD: F:W6: RK: 3F: 7W: 7U: 7V |
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