Persistence in health limitations: A European comparative analysis

Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina; Jones, Andrew M.; Rice, Nigel

doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2008.06.007

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“…Importantly, despite public health system coverage being in place, most studies suggest that significant inequalities in health and health care remain pervasive over time [2,3]. As we show in this study, similar patterns of inequality in health are found between countries with widely different levels of social protection (see Section 5).…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 79%

“…Adams et al [52], Buckley et al [53], Frijters [58], Hernández Quevedo et al [3], Costa-Font et al [54] are some of the studies providing evidence on socioeconomic inequalities in self-perceived measures of health status.…”

Section: Measuring Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further, collecting biological data also tends to reduce survey response rates, which limits the sample size and their representativeness [79]. The limitation of biological markers to cross-sectional data is an important disadvantage since longitudinal data allows the exploration of the dynamic relationship between health, socioeconomic status and access to health care [3].…”

Section: Reporting Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The health economic and policy literature has documented that inequalities favouring the better-off exist in all European countries, both with respect to the use of health care and with respect to the distribution of health itself, and that they correlate with education, income and job status [3,13]. Although health depends on the socioeconomic status of the individual, the nature of this relation has been found complex and controversial.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Socioeconomic status can influence health through the direct influence of material deprivation in the health production function and on the access to health care as well as the uptake and compliance with medical treatments; yet health may influence socioeconomic status through the impact of health shocks on the labour market outcomes, such as unemployment, early retirement [18,19] and earnings [20]. Further, "unobservables", such as time preference and risk aversion rates, may be underlying this relationship [3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Persistence of physical activity in middle age: a nonlinear dynamic panel approach

Kumagai

Ogura

2013

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No prior investigation has considered the effects of state dependence and unobserved heterogeneity on the relationship between regular physical activity (RPA) and latent health stock (LHS). Accounting for state dependence corrects the possible overestimation of the impact of socioeconomic factors. We estimated the degree of the state dependence of RPA and LHS among middle-aged Japanese workers. The 5 years’ longitudinal data used in this study were taken from the Longitudinal Survey of Middle and Elderly Persons. Individual heterogeneity was found for both RPA and LHS, and the dynamic random-effects probit model provided the best specification. A smoking habit, low educational attainment, longer work hours, and longer commuting time had negative effects on RPA participation. RPA had positive effects on LHS, taking into consideration the possibility of confounding with other lifestyle variables. The degree of state dependence of LHS was positive and significant. Increasing the intensity of RPA had positive effects on LHS and caused individuals with RPA to exhibit greater persistence of LHS compared to individuals without RPA. This result implies that policy interventions that promote RPA, such as smoking cessation, have lasting consequences. We concluded that smoking cessation is an important health policy to increase both the participation in RPA and LHS.

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Good jobs, good pay, better health? The effects of job quality on health among older European workers

Henseke¹

2017

Eur J Health Econ

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Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, this study presents new evidence on the effects of job quality on the occurrence of severe acute conditions, the level of cardiovascular risk factors, musculoskeletal disorders, mental health, functional disabilities and self-assessed health among workers aged 50+. By combining intrinsic job quality with job insecurity and pay the study maps out multiple potential pathways through which work may affect health and well-being. Levering longitudinal data and external information on early retirement ages allows for accounting of unobserved heterogeneity, selection bias and reverse causality. The empirical findings suggest that inequities in health correlate with inequities in job quality, though a substantial fraction of these associations reflect time-constant unobserved heterogeneity. Still, there is evidence for genuine protective effects of better jobs on musculoskeletal disorders, mental health and general health. The effect could contribute to a substantial number of avoidable disorders among older workers, despite relatively modest effect sizes at the level of individuals. Mental health, in particular, responds to changes in job quality. Selection bias such as the healthy worker effect does not alter the results. But the influence of job quality on health may be transitional among older workers. An in-depth analysis of health dynamics reveals no evidence for persistence.

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Persistence in health limitations: A European comparative analysis

Cited by 38 publications

References 50 publications

Measuring inequalities in health: What do we know? What do we need to know?

Measuring inequalities in health: What do we know? What do we need to know?

Persistence of physical activity in middle age: a nonlinear dynamic panel approach

Good jobs, good pay, better health? The effects of job quality on health among older European workers

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