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| Health inequalities in later life in a social democratic welfare state | | Author(s) | Espen Dahl, Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund |
| Journal title | Social Science and Medicine, vol 44, no 6, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 871-881 |
| Keywords | Ill health ; Mental disorder ; Social class ; Economic status [elderly] ; Social welfare ; Variance analysis ; Norway. |
| Annotation | This paper examines inequalities in mental health and 'serious' illness among 964 men and women aged 65 and over in Norway, and analyses the extent to which the assumed class differentials in ill health in later life are accounted for by socioeconomic circumstances now and during upbringing. Multiple logistic regression analyses suggest that the bivariate relationship between previous class location and present health condition among older men remains or may be attributed to current income. For women, their previous class location is not significantly related to either health outcome, whereas their current income and present economic difficulties are significantly related to both health measures in the expected direction. Serious illness is related to long-standing illness in childhood, and poorer mental health is associated with economic hardship in childhood and dissention in family upbringing. Health inequalities in later life may, to some extent, be attributed to the 'legacy of the past', and that the social democratic welfare state has not succeeded in eradicating health inequalities despite its egalitarian age pension policy. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980317201 A |
| Classmark | CH: E: T: F:W: TY: 3YA: 76N * |
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