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Age, sex and health
— a summary of findings from the York health evaluation study | | Author(s) | Stephen J Wright |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Health Economics, University of York |
| Publisher | University of York Centre for Health Economics, York, 1986 |
| Pages | 29 pp (Centre for Health Economics discussion paper, 15) |
| Source | Centre for Health Economics, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD. |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Attitude ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The survey assessed the effects of age and sex on self-perceived health in a sample of 377 lay respondents covering a broad range of age (17-88 years) and other sociodemographic variables. Age is found to show positive relationships with the following independent health status measures: number of current medical conditions; scores on a functional limitation scale; and chronic health status. Age also showed positive relationships with two 'external' local of control scales - powerful and chance - and with health satisfaction self-ratings. Sex is found to show significant effects on number of current medical conditions (females show higher scores than males) and previous best health self-ratings (males show higher scores than females). Age is thus associated with poorer health status, increased beliefs in the importance of powerful others and chance for one's own health, lower current health self-ratings and estimated age-sex average ratings, and substantially lower best possible health self-ratings. Older generations may also accept the idea of an inevitable decline in health status with age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-941031205 P |
| Classmark | CC: DP: F: 4C: 3F * |
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