Health Measurement and Health Inequality Over the Life Course: A Comparison of Self-rated Health, SF-12, and Grip Strength

Leopold, Liliya

doi:10.1007/s13524-019-00761-x

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“…It takes the value of 1 if residents suffer from some physical discomfort. Besides, self-rated health is usually used in empirical studies as one of the health measures [ 18 ]. We also use it as a health indicator and the answers to respondents’ self-rated health range from 1 (excellent) to 5 (poor).…”

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Associations between Greenspaces and Individual Health: A Longitudinal Study in China

Liao

2022

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Using a longitudinal survey in China, this study identifies the effect of greenspaces on individual health in the aspects of self-rated health, mental health, feeling physical discomfort, and being hospitalized. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is used to measure the greenery cover of each city, and findings show that higher NDVI leads to the improvement of personal self-rated health status, and it also decreases the probability of being hospitalized, having symptoms of physical discomfort, and being lost in bad mood. The positive health effect of NDVI in the city is much more significant and larger for the middle-aged, the elderly, and the low-educated. The evidence of the three possible channels through which the NDVI of each city shows a positive correlation with individual physical and mental health is found. The increased NDVI in the city encourages residents to foster healthier habits (e.g., decreasing smoking or drinking, increasing sleeping hours), improves air quality and reduces air pollution in each city, and promotes the social cohesion of people, and so the health status of residents is enhanced. This study implies that increasing greenspaces in the city is an effective strategy to improve social welfare and residents’ health.

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Associations between Greenspaces and Individual Health: A Longitudinal Study in China

Liao

2022

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“…Finally, while we were able to utilize the three measures of self-assessed health available in the survey (SRH, FA, and medication use), the study could also have benefited from additional measures. An example is the SF-12 which captures multiple dimensions of self-assessed health such as physical and social functioning, mental health, and pain (Roelen et al 2015;Leopold 2019). Additionally, the CES-D-10 or the PHQ-9 which examine depression would also have been beneficial as depression is a significant comorbidity among older adults and an increasingly significant dimension of self-assessed health as people age (Schnittker 2005;Monahan et al 2009;Bhana et al 2015;Adams et al 2020).…”

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“…An example is the SF‐12 which captures multiple dimensions of self‐assessed health such as physical and social functioning, mental health, and pain (Roelen et al. 2015; Leopold 2019). Additionally, the CES‐D‐10 or the PHQ‐9 which examine depression would also have been beneficial as depression is a significant comorbidity among older adults and an increasingly significant dimension of self‐assessed health as people age (Schnittker 2005; Monahan et al.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Meaning of Health in Rural South Africa: Gender, the Life Course, and the Socioepidemiological Context

Mojola¹,

Ice²,

Schatz³

et al. 2022

Population & Development Rev

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This article examines the meaning of health among middle-aged and older adults in a rural South African setting, where 72 percent of adults aged 40 and over are living with a major chronic condition, and 81 percent report good or very good health. We draw on a unique mixed-methods dataset that includes a population-based survey with disease biomarkers (hypertension, diabetes, HIV), self-assessments of health including self-rated health, functional ability and medication use, as well as nested qualitative life history interviews with survey participants including questions about lived experiences of health. We conduct survey trend analysis and ordinal logistic regression, as well as inductive and deductive coding of qualitative interviews, and triangulate findings across data sources. Overall, we find that self-rated health and functional ability are not associated with biometric disease indicators; however, we find that gendered familial expectations, life course stage, and the socioepidemiological context work together to regulate the salience of illness as people age. The study highlights the utility of research with multiple measures of health in illuminating the challenges of aging amidst the complex epidemiological transitions that increasingly characterize low-and middle-income countries.

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“…I examine the association between parental education (measured by maternal education) and children's math achievement Z sra as children grow older by fitting the following multi-level longitudinal regression models separately for children of native-born and of immigrant parents. Similar forms of multilevel longitudinal regression models (e.g., growth curve models from a multi-level modeling framework) are commonly applied in studies that examine achievement gaps associated with parental education (Potter and Roksa 2013) or other types of gaps (Leopold 2020; Mollborn et al 2014). Equation (1) is the basic structure of my model.…”

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The Life Course Origins of the Immigrant Advantage? Parental Nativity, Parental Education, and Academic Achievement Gaps From Kindergarten to High School in the United States

Kihara

2021

International Migration Review

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In the United States, there is a wide academic achievement gap, beginning in early childhood, between children with more and less educated parents. However, we know little about the differences in size and trajectories of achievement gaps associated with parental education and nativity. Drawing on two US education datasets that enable me to follow a cohort of children from kindergarten to high school, I estimate the size and trajectories of standardized test-score gaps associated with parental education, separately for children of native-born and immigrant parents. I find that the test-score gap between children with more and less educated native-born parents stays wide and stable from kindergarten entry to high school. In contrast, the test-score gap between children with more and less educated immigrant parents is narrower in kindergarten because of higher achievement of children with less educated immigrant parents, compared to their counterparts with less educated native-born parents. Moreover, the gap between more and less educated immigrant parents further narrows in their early life course because the achievement of children with less educated immigrant parents improves relative to children with more educated immigrant parents. Differences by parental nativity in the size and trajectories of achievement gaps associated with parental education can be partially explained by the fact that children with less educated immigrant parents have relatively greater resources than their peers with less educated native-born parents from early in life. My findings provide evidence that the “immigrant advantage” in academic achievement, a common finding in the literature on immigrant education in the United States, originates early in the life course.

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Health Measurement and Health Inequality Over the Life Course: A Comparison of Self-rated Health, SF-12, and Grip Strength

Cited by 17 publications

References 81 publications

Associations between Greenspaces and Individual Health: A Longitudinal Study in China

Associations between Greenspaces and Individual Health: A Longitudinal Study in China

The Meaning of Health in Rural South Africa: Gender, the Life Course, and the Socioepidemiological Context

The Life Course Origins of the Immigrant Advantage? Parental Nativity, Parental Education, and Academic Achievement Gaps From Kindergarten to High School in the United States

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