Indonesia's social capacity for population health: The educational gap in active life expectancy

Population Research and Policy Review

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 219-234

  Hidajat, Mira M ^a   Hayward, Mark D ^b   Saito, Yasuhiko ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active life expectancy; Aging; Education; Health; Indonesia

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EDUCATION; LIFE TABLE; MARKOV CHAIN; MODELING; NATIONAL PLANNING;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 34248649072     PISSN: 01675923     EISSN: 15737829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11113-007-9025-x     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Behrman, J., Sickles, R., Taubman, P., & Yazbeck, A. (1991). Inequalities in black-white mortality. Journal of Econometrics, 50, 183-204.
2. Brunner, E., Davey Smith, G., Marmot, M., Canner R., Beksinska M., & O'Brien, J. (1996). Childhood social circumstances and psychosocial and behavioural factors as determinants of plasma fibrinogen. Lancet, 347 (9007), 1008-1013.
3. Caldwell, J. C. (1979). Education as a factor in mortality decline: An examination of Nigerian data. Population Studies, 33 (3), 395-413.
4. Costa, D. L. (1999). Understanding the twentieth century decline in chronic conditions among older men. Demography, 37, 53-71.
5. Crimmins, E. M., Hayward, M. D., & Saito, Y. (1994). Changing mortality and morbidity rates and the health status and life expectancy of the older population. Demography, 31, 159-175.
6. Crimmins, E. M., Hayward, M. D., & Saito, Y. (1996). Differentials in active life expectancy in the older population. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 51B, S111-S120.
7. Crimmins, E. M., & Saito, Y. (2001). Trends in healthy life expectancy in the United States, 1970-1990: Gender, racial, and educational differences. Social Science and Medicine, 52, 1629-1641.
8. Easterlin, R. A. (1997). Growth triumphant, the twenty-first century in historical perspective. Ann Arbor MI: The University of Michigan Press.
9. Elo, I. T., & Preston, S. H. (1992). Effects of early-life conditions on adult mortality: A review. Population Index 58, 186-212.
10. Feinstein, J. S. (1993). The relationship between socioeconomic status and health: A review of the literature. The Milbank Quarterly, 71, 279-322.
11. Fogel, R. W., & Costa, D. L. (1997). A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs. Demography, 34 (1), 49.
12. Freedman, V. A., & Martin, L. G. (1999). The role of education in explaining and forecasting trends in functional limitations among older Americans. Demography, 36, 461-473.
13. Friedrick, W. H., & Worden, R. L. (1992). Indonesia: A country study. Washington, DC: Library of Congress.
14. Hayward, M. D., Crimmins, E. M., Miles, T. P., & Yang, Y. (2000). The significance of socioeconomic status in explaining the racial gap in chronic health conditions. American Sociological Review, 65, 910-930.
15. Hayward, M. D., Crimmins, E. M., & Zhang, Z. (2005). Consequences of educational change for the burden of chronic health problems in the population. In A. H. Gauthier, C. Chu, & S. Tuljapurkar (Eds.), The distribution of private and public resources across generations (pp. 227-242). New York: Oxford University Press.
16. Hayward, M. D., & Grady, W. R. (1990). Work and retirement among a cohort of older men in the United States, 1963-1983. Demography, 27 (3), 337-356.
17. House, J. S., Lepkowski, J. M., Kinney, A. M., Mero, R. P., Kessler, R. C., & Herzog, A. R. (1994). The social stratification of aging and health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 35, 213-234.
18. Kaneda, T., & Zimmer, Z. (forthcoming), Education, gender, and functional transitions among Indonesian elderly. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology.
19. Land, K. C., Guralnik, J. M., & Blazer, D. G. (1994). Estimating increment-decrement life tables with multiple covariates from Panel Data: The case of active life expectancy. Demography, 31 (2), 297-319.
20. Lynch, J. W., Kaplan, G. A., & Salonen, J. T. (1997). Why do poor people behave poorly? Variation in adult health behaviours and psychosocial characteristics by stages of the socioeconomic lifecourse. Social Science and Medicine, 44 (6), 809-819.
21. Manton, K. G., & Stallard, E. (1997). Health and disability differences among racial and ethnic groups. In L. G. Martin & B. Soldo (Eds.), Racial and ethnic differences in the health of older Americans (pp. 43-105). Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
22. Muhidin, S. (2002). The population of Indonesia: Regional demographic scenarios using a multiregional method and multiple data sources. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rozenberg Publishers.
23. Palloni, A. (1981). Mortality in Latin America: Emerging patterns. Population and Development Review, 7 (4), 623-649.
24. Preston, S. H. (1975). The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development. Population Studies 29 (2), 231-248.
25. Preston, S. H., & Taubman, P. (1994). Socioeconomic differences in adult mortality, health status. In L. G. Martin & S. H. Preston (Eds.), Demography of aging (pp. 279-318). Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
26. Ross, C. E., & Mirowsky, J. (1999). Refining the association between education and health: The effects of quantity, credential, and selectivity. Demography, 36, 445-460.
27. Ross, C. E., & Wu, C. L. (1996). Education, age, and the cumulative advantage in health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 37 (1), 104-120.
28. United Nations (2005). World population prospects: The 2004 revision. New York: United Nations.
29. Winkleby, M. A., Jatulis, D. E., Frank, E., & Fortmann, S. P. (1992). Socioeconomic status and health: How education, income, and occupation contribute to risk factors for cardiovascular disease. American Journal of Public Health, 82 (6), 816-820.
30. World Health Organization [WHO] (2000). Life tables for 191 countries: Indonesia 2000. Retrieved March 2005 from http://www3.who.int/whosis/ life_tables/life_tables_process.cfm?country=idn&language=en.
31. Zimmer, Z., Hermalin, A. I., & Lin, H. S. (2002). Whose education counts? The added impact of adult-child education on physical functioning of older Taiwanese. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 57 (1), S23-32.
32. Zimmer, Z., Liu, X., Hermalin, A. I., & Chuang, Y. L. (1998). Educational attainment and transitions in functional status among older Taiwanese. Demography, 35 (3), 361-375.