The dynamics of health and its determinants among the elderly in developing countries
The dynamics of health and its determinants among the elderly in developing countries
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ehb.2015.06.001
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发表时间：
2015-12-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Kim, Younoh
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作者：
Kim, Younoh
本文考察了老年人健康状况不佳的持续性，并试图确定其决定因素。我们特别感兴趣的是最近健康状况不佳所起的作用。使用印度尼西亚家庭生活调查(IFLS)的面板数据集，检查了几个健康指标，如总体健康状况较差(GHS较差)、高血压和低体重指数(Low BMI)。我们发现，对于所有健康指标，一旦个体固定作用，最近的过去不良健康对当前不良健康的影响很小。举例来说，在整体健康状况欠佳的情况下，近期整体健康状况欠佳的长者在未来一段期间的整体健康状况较同龄人只高出4个百分点。(C)2015爱思唯尔B.V.保留所有权利。
This paper examines the persistence of bad health among the elderly, and attempts to identify its determinants. We are particularly interested in the role of recent past bad health. Using a panel data set from Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS), several health measures such as poor general health status (poor GHS), hypertension, and low body mass index (low BMI) are examined. We find that for all health measures, recent past bad health has a small impact on current bad health once conditioning on individual fixed effects. For instance, in the case of poor GHS, the elderly with poor GHS in the recent past are only 4% points more likely to have poor GHS in the subsequent period compared to their counterparts. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.