Birth-cohort trends in older-age functional disability and their relationship with socio-economic status: Evidence from a pooling of repeated cross-sectional population-based studies for the UK

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 136-137, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-9

  Morciano, Marcello ^a   Hancock, Ruth M ^a   Pudney, Stephen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth cohort trends; Disability; Older people; Socio economic status; UK

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BIRTH RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; ELDERLY POPULATION; HEALTH STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TREND ANALYSIS;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH COHORT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONAL NEEDS; POPULATION RESEARCH; SENESCENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; AGE; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CLASS; VERY ELDERLY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT EFFECT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84928985660     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.04.035     Document Type: Article

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