Does multi-morbidity mediate the effect of socioeconomics on self-rated health? cross-country differences

Shervin Assari · Maryam Moghani Lankarani

71 citations0/0 files storedInternational Journal of Preventive Medicine

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Health disparities and outcomes Aging, Health, and Disability Chronic Disease Management Strategies

Abstract

BACKGROUND: This study explored cross-country differences in how multi-morbidity explains the effects of socioeconomic characteristics on self-rated health. METHODS: The study borrowed data from the Research on Early Life and Aging Trends and Effects. Participants were 44,530 individuals (age > 65 years) who were sampled from 15 countries (i.e. United States, China, India, Russia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Uruguay, Ghana and South Africa). Multi-morbidity was measured as number of chronic medical conditions. In Model I, main effects of socioeconomic factors on self-rated health were calculated using country-specific logistic regressions. In Model II, number of chronic conditions were also added to the models to find changes in coefficients for demographic and socioeconomic factors. RESULTS: In the United States, number of chronic medical conditions explained the effect of income on subjective health. In Puerto Rico, number of chronic medical conditions explained the effect of marital status on subjective health. In Costa Rica, Argentina, Barbados, Cuba, and Uruguay, number of chronic medical conditions explained gender disparities in subjective health. In China, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Chile, India, Ghana and South Africa, number of chronic medical conditions did not explain the effect of demographic or socioeconomic factors on subjective health. CONCLUSIONS: Multi-morbidity explains the effect of demographic and socioeconomic factors on subjective health in some but not other countries. Further research is needed.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 71 citations exist upstream.

References

1999Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress.1997Self-Rated Health and Mortality: A Review of Twenty-Seven Community Studies 1987Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires 2000Influences of socioeconomic status, social network, and competence on subjective well-being in later life: A meta-analysis.2010The happiness–income paradox revisited 1952Cultural Components in Responses to Pain1 2012The Local-Ladder Effect 1996Marriage protection and marriage selection—Prospective evidence for reciprocal effects of marital status and health

Cited by

2017Gender inequality in self-reported health among the elderly in contemporary welfare countries: A cross-country analysis of time use activities, socioeconomic positions and family characteristics 2020Income and Mental Well-Being of Middle-Aged and Older Americans: Immigrants’ Diminished Returns 2019Minorities’ Diminished Returns of Educational Attainment on Hospitalization Risk: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)2016Number of Chronic Medical Conditions Fully Mediates the Effects of Race on Mortality; 25-Year Follow-Up of a Nationally Representative Sample of Americans

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.