The effect of education on mortality among older Taiwanese and its pathways
The effect of education on mortality among older Taiwanese and its pathways
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DOI：
10.1093/geronb/53b.2.s71
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发表时间：
1998-03-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Chuang, YL
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作者：
Liu, X;Hermalin, AI;Chuang, YL
本研究探讨在1989年4月至1993年4月的四年间，教育对台湾老年人死亡率的影响。本研究所使用的资料来自台湾老年人健康与生活状况调查(1989)。本研究通过健康状况、健康行为和社会关系将教育效应分解为直接效应和间接效应。我们发现，在教育程度对台湾老年人死亡率的总体影响中，约83%是通过三个中介因素，特别是健康状况，间接影响台湾老年人的死亡率。另一方面，直接效应的大小，可能反映了额外的干预变量对老年死亡率的影响，是低的，并且在统计学上不显著。结果显示，教育对台湾老年人死亡率的显著影响可以通过三条主要途径来解释。
The present research examines the impact of education on the mortality of older Taiwanese during a 4-year interval from April 1989 to April 1993. Data used for this study come from the Taiwan Survey of Health & Living Status of the Elderly (1989). The research decomposes the effect of education into the direct effect and the indirect effects by means of health status, health behaviors, and social relationships. We have shown that of the total effect of educational attainment on the mortality of older Taiwanese, about 83% represents indirect influences by means of the 3 mediating factors, particularly health status. On the other hand, the magnitude of the direct effect, which might reflect influences of additional intervening variables on old-age mortality, is low and not statistically significant. The results demonstrate that the apparent strong effect of education on mortality among older Taiwanese can be accounted for parsimoniously through 3 major pathways.