| Titre : | Adult life experiences and health in early old age in Great Britain. (2000) |
| Auteurs : | E. GRUNDY ; G. HOLT ; Centre for Population Studies. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. London. GBR |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 51, n° 7, 2000) |
| Pagination : | 1061-1074 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Grande Bretagne ; Royaume Uni ; Europe ; Epidémiologie ; Personne âgée ; Homme ; Etat santé ; Incapacité ; Inégalité sociale ; Classe sociale ; Facteur socioéconomique ; Facteur sociodémographique |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST DR0xPvHI. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. In Britain and other developed countries older people comprise a large majority of all those reporting long term illness or disability. However, most studies of socio-demographic variations in health have focussed on those in younger age groups. Moreover approaches to the study of health variations are often fragmented. In this study we have adopted a life course approach to analyse differentials in health in early old age. The data comes from the Retirement and Retirement Plans Survey and follow-up. a two-wave study of persons aged 55-69 in 1988/9. As well as information on current circumstances, the data set includes occupational, marital, and fertility history information. At baseline a nationally representative sample of the population of Great Britain were interviewed at home by trained interviewers (n=3543), The sample was followed up and in 1994,2247 survivors were re-interviewed, a response rate of 70% (of survivors). The data were weighted to adjust for non-response bias. Two outcome measures were used : self rated health and presence or absence of disability assessed from a scale derived from detailed questions on thirteen domains of disability. The severity score used was that developed for the 1985/6 ONS Surveys of Disability. (...) |
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