Gender Differences in Trajectories of Self-Rated Health in Middle and Old Age

Leah S. Rohlfsen · Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld

48 citations0/0 files storedJournal of Aging and Health

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 Gender, Health, and Social Inequality

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: This research examined gender differences in self-rated health (SRH) using the differential exposure and differential vulnerability explanations of gender differences in health. METHOD: Trajectories of SRH were estimated using data that spanned 12 years (1992-2004) from the Health and Retirement Study. RESULTS: There was no gender difference in SRH at baseline, but SRH declined faster for males over time. Factors that mediated the gender difference included changes in employment status, smoking behavior, and the onset of health conditions. Moreover, were it not for gender differences in various structural and health status factors, females would have better SRH at baseline and over time. DISCUSSION: Our results differ from previous research, which often shows a female disadvantage that is reduced or disappears at older ages. Furthermore, gender differences in the predictors of SRH (exposure) contribute more to understanding gender differences in SRH than different responses to the predictors (vulnerability).

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 — 48 citations exist upstream.

References

1997Self-Rated Health and Mortality: A Review of Twenty-Seven Community Studies 2003Gender differences in health: a Canadian study of the psychosocial, structural and behavioural determinants of health 2004Marital Status, Marital Transitions, and Health: A Gendered Life Course Perspective 1999Community Studies Reporting Association between Self-Rated Health and Mortality 2005The Impact of Childhood and Adult SES on Physical, Mental, and Cognitive Well-Being in Later Life 2001Gender and health: reassessing patterns and explanations 2001Correlates of subjective health in older adults: A meta-analysis.1999Gender differences in structural and behavioral determinants of health: an analysis of the social production of health

Cited by

2022Aging and self-reported health in 114 Latin American cities: gender and socio-economic inequalities 2017Epidemiology of self-rated health in rural China: a population-based cross-sectional study 2016Re-evaluating gender differences in self-rated health: The importance of cohort 2023Decomposition and comparative analysis of health inequities between the male and female older adults in China: a national cross-sectional study

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.