Health Policy and Management (보건행정학회지)

Korean Academy of Health Policy and Management (한국보건행정학회)
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The relationship between socio-economic factors and self-rated health among older people

노인의 사회 경제적 수준과 주관적 건강수준과의 관계

  • Lee Hoo Yeon (Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University) ;
  • Kim Sung A (Dept. of Public Health The Graduate School, Yonsei University) ;
  • Lee Hye Jean (Dept. of Infectious Disease Control, Korea Center for Disease Control & Prevention) ;
  • Jung Sang Hyuk (Dept. of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University)
  • 이후연 (연세대학교 보건대학원) ;
  • 김성아 (연세대학교 대학원 보건학과) ;
  • 이혜진 (질병관리본부 전염병관리부) ;
  • 정상혁 (이화여자대학교 예방의학교실)
  • Published : 2005.06.01
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between socio-economic factors and self-rated health among older people living in the community. In addition, the study tries to determine whether risk differentials by these socio-economic factors can be explained by other demographic factors, chronic diseases, and functional status. We surveyed to investigate the self-rated health of 397 study samples which had been selected by stratified randomized sampling, $2.7\%$ by each Dong (district) of S-city in Gyeonggi-do. Our study found that the socioeconomic factors such as income, occupation, and insurance were significantly associated with self-rated health. The level of social economic status was positively associated with the level of self-rated health. Two-staged multivariate analysis demonstrated that this relationship was still significant even after adjustment for demographic factors, chronic diseases, and functional status. In conclusion, there are wide socio-economic disparities in self-rated health of older people in this community. It is important that government should know not only health status but also the health-associated factors in order to prepare for the aged society and improve the health status of the elderly. Further researches should uncover causality and mechanism by which SES affects changes in functional health among the elderly.

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