Abstract
This study used the data from the Chinese Urban and Rural Elderly Population Survey to analyze the correlations among the self-rated health of elderly Chinese people, demographic factors and chronic diseases. The results revealed that in comparing younger elderly individuals vs older elderly individuals, the urban elderly vs rural elderly, elderly man vs elderly women, and the elderly with fewer chronic diseases vs the elderly with more chronic diseases, the former’s self-rated health tended to be good, while the latter tended to be bad. In addition, over time, elderly individuals’ self-rated health tended to improve. This paper further studied high blood pressure, heart disease, arthritis, neck and lumbar disease, and chronic bronchitis and the impact of these five common chronic diseases on self-rated health. The results showed that, among these five types of chronic diseases, the impacts of heart disease and chronic bronchitis were greater than those of the other three chronic diseases.
Highlights
Self-rated health is a comprehensive assessment based on an elderly person’s subjective feelings
The dependent variable was the elderly’s self-rated health, and the independent variables were age, sex, census registry and whether one is suffering from high blood pressure, heart disease, arthritis, neck and lumbar disease, or chronic bronchitis
This study used the data from the Chinese Urban and Rural Elderly Population Survey and use Ordinal Logistic Regression to analyze the correlations among Chinese elderly peoples’ self-rated health, demographic factors and chronic diseases
Summary
Self-rated health is a comprehensive assessment based on an elderly person’s subjective feelings. It can reflect population differences and the common factors affecting the health of the elderly. In the area of the relationships between health conditions and chronic diseases, Fang Xianghua et al (2003) found that elderly people’s self-rated health was relative to the rates of common geriatric chronic diseases [3]. Li Cuixia et al (2012) statistically analyzed common chronic diseases and self-rated health conditions, and they performed unconditioned logistic regression of influencing factors to analyze the relationships between the self-rated health and chronic diseases in Nanning [4]. This study first analyzed the impacts of demographic characteristics on the elderly’s self-rated health and further studied the relationships between self-rated health and common chronic diseases
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