Decomposing differences in the chronic disease condition between rural and urban older adults in China: a cross-sectional analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the increasing in aging in China, there has been an increase in older adults suffering from chronic diseases. However, little is known about the differences in chronic disease conditions between rural and urban older adults. The objective of this study is to identify chronic disease conditions and investigate the factors that cause differences in chronic disease conditions between urban and rural older adults.

Methods

The data are from the fourth wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. The coarsened exact matching (CEM) method was used to reduce the biases for a comparative study. After the CEM method, this study included 5,927 participants aged 60 and above. Chronic disease condition was used as the indicator to measure the health of olde

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10797097 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature