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Cities, environmental stressors, ageing and chronic disease
Author(s)	Deborah Black, Kate O'Loughlin, Hal Kendig
Journal title	Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 31, no 3, September 2012
Pages	pp 147-151
Source	www.wileyonlinelibrary.com
Keywords	Urban areas ; Air pollution ; Chronic illness ; Economic status [elderly] ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; Australia.
Annotation	The authors attempt to identify any association between length of exposure to urban environmental risk and non-infectious chronic disease in a group of Australian residents who lived in the same location for at least 20 years. They used data for 1256 such participants aged 45+ from the Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey. The used logistic regression and survival analysis to identify factors associated with the presence of non-infectious chronic disease at baseline and after 7 years. Results show that increasing age, living in an urban area and living in area with a lower socioeconomic status increases the odds of having a long-term health condition. This study provides empirical evidence that older long-term Australian urban residents are more likely to have a chronic disease, which may be associated with environmental exposure, than those living in rural locations. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-121102211 A
Classmark	RK: RAA: CI: F:W: 49: 3J: 7YA
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