Social determinants of sex differences in disability among older adults: A multi-country decomposition analysis using the World Health Survey

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hosseinpoor, Ahmad Reza ^a   Williams, Jennifer Stewart ^b   Jann, Ben ^c   Kowal, Paul ^a,b   Officer, Alana ^a   Posarac, Aleksandra ^d   Chatterji, Somnath ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Aging; Chronic disease; Disability; Equity; Functional limitation; Inequalities; Social determinants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; DECOMPOSITION; DISABILITY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ETIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; HEALTH SURVEY; LOGISTICS; WOMENS HEALTH; WORLD BANK; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84865816910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-11-52     Document Type: Article

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