Socioeconomic Determinants of Health Status Among Older Adults in Poland

Magdalena Kludacz-Alessandri () and Małgorzata Cygańska ()
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Magdalena Kludacz-Alessandri: Warsaw University of Technology
Małgorzata Cygańska: University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

A chapter in Eurasian Economic Perspectives, 2020, pp 239-253 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract One of the basic needs of the people is good health that is central to human happiness and well-being. The aim of the study was to investigate the health status of older adults (persons aged 50 years or higher) from Poland and to identify the factors affecting their health among sociodemographic and economic characteristics. The source of information used in the study was the panel data from wave 6 of SHARE (the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe). This database contains micro data from over 120,000 interviews with people over 50 years old from most of the EU countries and gives a broad picture of their health, socioeconomic status, life satisfaction, social, and family networks. The main methods used in this study to calculate the associations between socioeconomic determinants and health were the analysis of correlation and multiple regression. The findings showed that among the strongest determinants of health status of elderly in Poland are mainly various socio-demographic factors, such as education and job situation for the subjective dimension (self-esteem) of physical health; age and BMI for the objectivized (frequency and type of recognized health problems) physical health status; and marital status, gender, and education for mental health. We did not find any relationship between economic factors (income and property) and health status.

Keywords: Health status; Socioeconomic determinants; Regression analysis; Share data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-53536-0_17

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