Doctoral Dissertation Research: Physical Activity and Aging in the US

本论文使用健康与退休研究数据来调查运动在解释美国老年人健康方面的种族和性别差异方面的作用。运动可以被认为是人们对自己健康的一种投资。这些健康投资假定会受到人们拥有的其他类型资本的影响：经济、社会和文化。这些资本形式的多个维度将被测试它们与锻炼的关系。锻炼中的种族/民族和性别差异可能部分是由不同水平的社会、经济和文化资本造成的。

This dissertation uses Health and Retirement Study data to investigate the role of exercise in explaining racial and gender disparities in health among older Americans. Exercise can be regarded as a type of investment that people make in their own health. These health investments are hypothesized to be affected by the other kinds of capital that people possess: economic, social, and cultural. Multiple dimensions of each of these forms of capital will be tested for their relationships with exercise. Racial/ethnic and gender differences in exercise may be explained in part by varying levels of social, economic, and cultural capital.