Associations of environmental factors with elderly health and mortality in china

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 298-305

  Zeng, Yi ^a,b   Gu, Danan ^a   Purser, Jama ^a   Hoenig, Helen ^a   Christakis, Nicholas ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 75649098197     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.154971     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. International Monetary Fund. World economic and financial surveys. World economic outlook database. 2007. Available at: http://www.imf.org/pubs/ft/weo/ 2007/02/weodata/indcx.aspx. Accessed June 12,2008.
2. Wang Y. Environmental degradation and environmental threats in China. Environ Monit Assess. 2004; 90(1-3):161-169.
3. Cann CW. Conn MC, Gao S. China's road to sustainable development. In: Day KA. ed. China's Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development. New York, NY: M. E. Sharpe: 2005:3-34.
4. López R. Environmental degradation and economic openness in LDCs: the poverty linkage. Am J Agrie Econ. 1992;74(5):1138-1143. (Pubitemid 24432080)
5. Chousa JP, Tamazian A, Vadlamannati KC. Rapid Economic Growth at the Cost of Environment Degradation? Panel Data Evidence from BRIC Economies. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan; 2008. William Davidson Institute working paper 908.
6. Zcng Y, George LK. Population aging and old-age care in China. In: Dannefer D. Phillipson C, eds. Sage Handbook of Social Gerontology. Thousand Oaks. CA: Sage. In press.
7. Nizamuddin M. Javed Sajjad Ahmad. Fauzia Maqsood. Demography of aging. In: Zeng Y, ed. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems: Demography Volume. Theme 6.147. Oxford, UK: UNESCO PublishingEOLSS Publisher; 2008.
8. Filleul L, Rondeau V, Cantagrel A, Dartigues J-F. Tessier J-F. Do subject characteristics modify the effects of particulate air pollution on daily mortality among the elderly? J Occup Environ Med. 2004;46(11): 1115-1 122. (Pubitemid 39518491)
9. Kawachi I, Berkman LF. Neighborhoods and Health. New York, NY: Oxford University Press: 2003.
10. Balfour JL, Kaplan GA. Neighborhood environment and loss of physical function in older adults: evidence from the Alameda County Study. Am J Epidemiol. 2002; 155(6):507-515.
11. Nordstrom CK, Diez Roux AV. Jackson SA. Gardin JM. The association of personal and neighborhood socioeconomic indicators with subclinical cardiovascular disease in an elderly cohort: the Cardiovascular Health Study. Soc Sci Med. 2004;59(10):2139-2147.
12. 12. Sandstrom T. Frew AJ. Svartengren M, Viegi G. The need for a focus on air pollution research in the elderly. Eur Respir J. 2003:21 (Suppl 40):92S-95S. (Pubitemid 36565590)
13. 13. Lepeule J, Rondeau V, Filleul L. Dartigues J-F. Survival analysis to estimate association between shortterm mortality and air pollution. Environ Health Perspect. 2006:114(2):242-244. (Pubitemid 43193646)
14. Donaldson GC. Kovals RS. Keatinge WR, McMichael R. Heat- and cold-related mortality and morbidity and climate change. In: Expert Group on Climate Change and Health in the UK ed. Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK. London. UK: Department of Health; 2001:71-80.
15. 15. Keatinge WR, Donaldson GC. The impact of global warming on health and mortality. South Med J 2004: 97(11 ):1093-1099. (Pubitemid 39518702)
16. Suzman RM, Manton KG, Willis DP. Introducing the oldest old. In: Suzman RM. Willis DP, Manton KG, eds. The Oldest Old. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 1992.
17. Kan H, Chen B. Air pollution and daily mortality in Shanghai: a time-series study. Arch Environ Health. 2003; 58(6):360-367. (Pubitemid 38235578)
18. Hernandez LM, Blazer DG, eds. Genes, Behavior, and the Social Environment: Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Debate. Washington, DC: National Academies Press; 2006.
19. Gu D. General data assessment of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey in 2002. In: Zcng Y, Poston DL. Vlosk DA, Gu D, eds. Healthy Longevity in China: Demographic. Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer: 2008:39-58.
20. Zeng Y, Gu D. Reliability of age reporting among the Chinese oldest-old in the CLHLS datasets. In: Zeng Y, Poston DL, Vlosk DA, Gu D, eds. Healthy Longevity in China: Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer; 2008: 61-79.
21. Folstein MF, Folstein SE. McHugh PR. Mini-mental state: a practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Psych Res. 1975: 12:189-198.
22. Kulminski AM, Ukraintseva SV, Kulminskaya IV, Arbeev KG, Land KC. Yashin AY. Cumulative deficits better characterize susceptibility to death in the elderly than phenotypic frailty: lessons from the Cardiovascular Health Study. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2008; 56(5):898-903.
23. 23. Goggins WB, Woo J. Sham A, HoSC. Frailty index as a measure of biological age in a Chinese population. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2005:60(8): 1046-1051. (Pubitemid 41233322)
24. Socioeconomic Development Data at County Level in China [CD-ROM]. Beijing: Nation Bureau of Statistics of China; 2003.
25. Chinese Natural Resources Database. Beijing: Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources. 2004. Available at: http://www.data.ac.cn/index.asp. Accessed June 12. 2008.
26. National Bureau of Stafistics of China and State Environmental Protection Administration. China Statistical Yearbook on Environment. Beijing: China Statistics Press; 2004.
27. Ferraro KF, Farmer MM, Wybranicc JA. Health trajectories: long-term dynamics among Black and White adults. J Health Soc Behav. 1997;38(l):38-54. (Pubitemid 127454451)
28. Kim JM. Stewart R, Shin IS, Yoon JS. Limb length and dementia in an older Korean population. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2003;74(4):427-432. (Pubitemid 36379362)
29. Stuck AE, Walthert JM, Nikolaus T, Bula CJ, Hohmann C, Beck JC. Risk factors for functional status decline in community-living elderly people: a systematic literature review. Soc Sci Med. 1999: 48(4):445-469. (Pubitemid 29023277)
30. Koening HG, Hays JC, Larson DB, et al. Does religious attendance prolong survival? A six-year followup study of 3,968 older adults. J Gerontol A Med Sci. 1999;54(7):M370-M376.
31. Strawbridge WJ. Cohen RD. Shema SJ, Kaplan GA. Frequent attendance at religious services and mortality over 28 years. Am J Public Health. 1997;87(6): 957-961.
32. Raudenbush S. Bryk A, Cheong YE, Congdon R, du Toit M. HLM: Hierarchical Lineur and Nonlinear Modeling. Lincolnwood. IL: Scientific Software International; 2004.
33. Zeng Y, Gu D, Land KC. The association of childhood socioeconomic conditions with healthy longevity at the oldest-old ages in China. Demography. 2007;44(3): 497-518.
34. Zeng Y, Poston D, Vlosky DA, Gu D. eds. Healthy Longevity in China: Demographic. Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer: 2008.
35. Ballester F, Corolla D, Pcrcz-Hoyos S, Saez M. Hervas A. Mortality as a function of temperature. A study in Valencia, Spain 1991-1993. Int J Epidemiol. 1997; 26(3):551-561.
36. Armstrong D. Barnett E, Casper M, Wing S. Community occupational structure, medical and economic resources, and coronary mortality among U.S. Blacks and Whites, 1980-1988. Ann Epidemiol. 1998:8(3): 184-191.
37. King WC, Belle SH, Brach JS, Simkin-Silverman LR, Soska T, Kriska AM. Objective measures of neighborhood environment and physical activity in older women. Am J Prev Med. 2005;28(5):461-469. (Pubitemid 40719048)
38. Zeng Y, Vaupel JW. Functional capacity and selfevaluation of health and life of the oldest-old in China. J Soc Issues. 2002;58:733-748.
39. Chen AJ, Jones G. Aging in ASEAN: Its Socioeconomic Consequences. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; 1989.
40. Lamb VL. Active Life Expectancy of the Elderly in Selected Asian Countries. Tokyo, Japan: Nihon University. Population Research Institute: 1999. Research paper 69.
41. Bell ML. Dominici F. Effect modification by community characteristics on the short-term effects of ozone exposure and mortality in 98 US communities. Am J Epidemiol. 2008; 167(8):986-997.
42. Sint T, Donohue JF, Ghio AJ. Ambient air pollution particles and the acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Inhal Toxicol. 2008:20(1): 25-29. (Pubitemid 351194919)
43. Stige LC, Stave J, Chan KS. ef al. The effect of climate variation on agro-pastoral production in Africa. Proc: Natl Acad Sci USA. 2006;103(9):3049-3053. (Pubitemid 43346422)
44. Lobell DB, Burke MB, Tebaldi C, Mastrandrea MD, Falcon WP, Naylor RL. Prioritizing climate change adaptation needs for food security in 2030. Science. 2008;319(5863):607-610. (Pubitemid 351197060)
45. Keysor JJ. Does late-life physical activity or exercise prevent or minimize disablement? A critical review of the scientific evidence. Am jPrev Med 2003;25(3 Suppl 2):129-136.
46. Pruss-Ustün A, Bonjour S. Corvalán C. The impact of llic environment on health by country: a meta-synthcsis. Environ Health. 2008:7:7.