Socioeconomic inequality in functional deficiencies and chronic diseases among older Indian adults: a sex-stratified cross-sectional decomposition analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Older adults with adverse socioeconomic conditions suffer disproportionately from a poor quality of life. Stratified by sex, income-related inequalities have been decomposed for functional deficiencies and chronic diseases among older adults, and the degree to which social and demographic factors contribute to these inequalities was identified in this study.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Participants

Data used for this study were retrieved from the WHO Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health Wave 1. A total of 3753 individuals (men: 1979, and women: 1774) aged ≥60 years were found eligible for the analysis.

Measures

Instrumental Activity of Daily Living (IADL) deficiency and presence of chronic diseases.

Method

The decomposition method propose

SUBMITTER: Singh L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6398785 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature