| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
| Relationships between age and gender differentials in health among older people in China | | Author(s) | Dewen Wang, Jianmin Zheng, Michiko Kurosawa |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 29, part 7, October 2009 |
| Pages | pp 1141-1154 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Age groups [elderly] ; Older men ; Older women ; Health [elderly] ; Indicators ; Correlation ; China. |
| Annotation | Using data for 15,789 people aged 65+ from the 2002 Chinese Longitudinal Health Longevity Study (CLHLS), this paper aimed to specify the relationships between age and gender differentials in health in older people in China, The health indicators included the Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL) scores, cognitive ability (using the Mini Mental State Examination, MMSE), visual function, hearing or auditory function, number of natural teeth, self-reported health, and self-reported quality of life. The statistical significance of the age relationship was examined using Mann Whitney U tests and Spearman rank order correlation coefficients. The principal results were that above age 65, gender differentials were observed in most of the health indicators at most ages, although self-rated quality of life was an exception. For most of the objective observer-rated health indicators, the gender differentials increased with greater age, but that for the number of natural teeth increased with age. Gender differentials in the two subjective health measures had no significant relationship with age. It is concluded that older Chinese women have poorer health than men and are in many ways disadvantaged, and that the relative disadvantage increases with age. Chinese women tend to live longer and suffer ill health more than men. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-09101208 A |
| Classmark | BB: BC: BD: CC: 3RI: 49: 7DC |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|