House value as an indicator of cumulative wealth is strongly related to morbidity and mortality risk in older people: a census-based cross-sectional and longitudinal study | Zendy

Sheelah Connolly | Zendy; Dermot O’Reilly | Zendy; Michael Rosato | Zendy

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House value as an indicator of cumulative wealth is strongly related to morbidity and mortality risk in older people: a census-based cross-sectional and longitudinal study

Author(s) -

Sheelah Connolly,

Dermot O’Reilly,

Michael Rosato

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyp356

Subject(s) - housing tenure , residence , census , gerontology , inequality , health indicator , public health , value (mathematics) , standard of living , demography , socioeconomics , environmental health , medicine , population , demographic economics , economics , sociology , market economy , mathematical analysis , mathematics , nursing , machine learning , computer science

There has been relatively little research into health inequalities in older populations. This may be partly explained by the difficulty in identifying appropriate indicators of socio-economic status for older people. Ideally, indicators of socio-economic status to be used in studies of health inequalities in older populations should incorporate some measure of life-time socio-economic standing, and house value may fill this role. This study examined whether an indicator of accumulated wealth based on a combination of housing tenure and house value was a strong predictor of ill-health in older populations.

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