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| Gender inequality in health among elderly people in a combined framework of socioeconomic position, family characteristics and social support | | Author(s) | Silvia Rueda, Lucia Artazcoz |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 29, part 4, May 2009 |
| Pages | pp 625-647 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Older men ; Older women ; Health [elderly] ; Chronic illness ; Economic status [elderly] ; The Family ; Informal care ; Quantitative studies ; Spain. |
| Annotation | Gender inequalities in health among older people in Catalonia, Spain are analysed, by adopting a conceptual framework that globally considers three dimensions of health determinants: socioeconomic position, family characteristics and social support. Data came from the 2006 Catalonian Health Survey. For the purpose of this study, a sub-sample of people aged 65-85 years with no paid job was selected (1113 men and 1484 women). The health outcomes analysed were self-perceived health status, poor mental health status and long-standing limiting illness. Multiple logistic regression models separated by sex were fitted and a hierarchical model was fitted in three steps. Health status among older women was poorer than among the men for the three outcomes analysed. Whereas living with disabled people was positively related to the three health outcomes and confidant social support was negatively associated with all of them in both sexes, there were gender differences in other social determinants of health. The results emphasise the importance of using an integrated approach for the analysis of health inequalities among older people, simultaneously considering socioeconomic position, family characteristics and social support, as well as different health indicators, in order to fully understand the social determinants of older men's and women's health status. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090501006 A |
| Classmark | BC: BD: CC: CI: F:W: SJ: P6: 3DQ: 76S |
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