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Risk of late-life depression across 10 European Union countries
— deconstructing the education effect | | Author(s) | Keren Ladin |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 20, no 6, September 2008 |
| Pages | pp 653-670 |
| Source | http://www.sagepublications.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Economic status [elderly] ; Demography ; Correlation ; Cross national surveys ; Europe. |
| Annotation | A cross-sectional study of 22777 men and women aged 50-104 from 10 European countries was conducted to assess the influence of education and non-education based measures of socioeconomic status on depression. Individual level data were collected from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Educational attainment was a strong predictor of late-life depression across all countries. Depression rates ranged from 8.1% in Denmark to 36.8% in Spain, reflecting a north-south gradient. Odds of depression were approximately twice as high among adults with less than a high school education compared with those of lower educational background. Inverse association between educational attainment and depression remained significant, independent of all other sociodemographic variables. Socioeconomic disparities in depression persist throughout later life. Variation in impact of education on depression cross-nationally illuminates need for future research into the protective effects of early life education. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081126209 A |
| Classmark | ENR: F:W: S8: 49: 3K: 74 |
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