Self-assessed health of elderly people in Brussels: does the built environment matter?

Claire Dujardin, Vincent Lorant () and Isabelle Thomas
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Vincent Lorant: Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Health and Society, Belgium

No 2013048, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: The built environment plays a key role in the strategy of “Aging in Place”. Here, we study the influence of the built environment on the health status of elderly people living in Brussels. Using census and geocoded data, we analysed if built environment factors were associated with poor self- assessed health status and functional limitations of elderly aged 65+. We concluded that the evidence of the built-environment hypothesis is weak and vulnerable to the composition of the neighborhood.

Keywords: built urban environment; subjective health; elderly; GIS-based measures; logistic regressions; Brussels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I14 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-09-23
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-hea and nep-ure
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Working Paper: Self-assessed health of elderly people in Brussels: does the built environment matter? (2014)
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