Reporting heterogeneity in self-assessed health among elderly Europeans pptx

... Thus, in particular mental effects drive the reporting heterogeneity. Concerning cut-point and index shifts, both indices enable us to incorporate proxies of true health. As both proxies are varying ... Milcent C: Income-Related Reporting Heterogeneity in Self-Assessed Health: Evidence from France. Health Econ 2006, 15 9:965–981. 10. van Doorslaer E, Jones AM: Inequalities i...

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... 4 461 Self-Perception of Health Among the Elderly K M Chan et al Self-Perception of Health among Elderly Community Dwellers in Singapore K M Chan,*FAMS, MBBS, M Med (Int Med), W S Pang,**FAMS, M Med (Int Med), ... Road, Singapore 159964. Introduction The single most important determinant of the quality of an elderly person’s life is health. In the elderly, health matters...

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... combining the following five items: having a shower and/or a bath, having hot running water, having central or dispersed heating, having an elevator, and having a washing machine. The resulting variable, ... patterns depending on the health indicator analysed, as well as the differences in factors associated with each of them point out the importance of examining different health indicator...

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... pilo- carpine 25,26 and cevimeline, 27,28 for the treatment of xero- stomia and salivary hypofunction. These drugs are effective in increasing secretions and diminishing xerostomic complaints in patients ... XEROSTOMIA The first step in treating patients with xero- stomia is establishing a diagnosis. This fre- quently involves a multidisciplinary team of health care practitioners amo...

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... attainment (years of schooling) is also fundamental in reflecting an individual's childhood social class circumstances, shaping health behaviors (such as smoking), and increasing self-efficacy and ... time-dependent covariates. If older people do incorporate health changes into their health ratings, self-rated health should remain a significant predictor in these models. Inde...

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... mountainsides, living in rural remote areas, and have limited access to health services. The oral health status of elderly people has been gaining more importance in both developing and ... significant health problem facing these hill tribe villagers, oral health was generally perceived to be of lower importance than physical health. According to a study among the...

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... Previous studies indicate that liquidity constraints may be important in determining educational attainment. If the resource dilution/liquidity constraint is also important in explaining the relationship ... 2006 Abstract This paper investigates whether the number of siblings is associated with health outcomes in the elderly population, using the Mexican Health and Aging Study (...

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... Survey on Aging, Health and Wellbeing, 2000: Washing- ton, D.C.: Pan American Health Organization; 2003. 23. Litwin H. Social network type and health sta- tus in a national sample of elderly Israelis. ... as determinants of health status among the elderly in the Caribbean nation of Barbados, in order to help develop timely public health interventions for that population....

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... of daily lining (ADLs) (eating, getting dressed, bathing/going to the toilet, and sitting) and five instru- mental activities of daily living (IADLs) (ability to carry things weighing 5 kgs, ... major determinants of self-assessed health of the elderly population of Spain [21]. Psychosocial symptoms are the third important determinant of self-assessed poor health among Thai elder...

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... improving lipid profiles and thereby preventing or delaying CVD in the elderly. Furthermore, numerous professional organizations including the Ameri- 100 NUTRITION AND HEALTH IN THE NATION’S ELDERLY can ... gastrointestinal tumor; having heart failure; having re- curring cough attacks; feeling tired, worn out, or exhausted; loss of teeth or having poor dentition; getting little or n...

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