Morbidity patterns and health care seeking behavior among older widows in India.

ABSTRACT: In the process of health transition, India is facing rapid pace of demographic aging. Rapid increase in older adult population posed serious concerns regarding health and health care utilization for them. However, very limited research documented resultant implications of demographic aging for health and health care use in the nexus of marital status and gender. With this perspective, the present study examined patterns in morbidity prevalence and health seeking behaviour among older widows in India. Multivariate logistic regression models were estimated to examine the effects of socio-demographic conditions on morbidity prevalence among older widows and their health care seeking behavior. Data from the latest 60(th) round of National Sample Survey (NSS), 2004 was used. Overall, morbidity

SUBMITTER: Agrawal G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3981780 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature