Social determinants of multimorbidity and multiple functional limitations among the ageing population of England, 2002-2015.

ABSTRACT: This study explores longitudinal relationships between material, psycho-social and behavioural social determinants of health and multimorbidity of people aged 50 years or older in England. We used data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing collected biannually between 2002 and 2015. Apart from the basic measure of multimorbidity (two or more diseases within a person) we constructed two distinct measures of health in order to take into account the biology of ageing (complex multimorbidity and multiple functional limitations). We found that the likelihood of multimorbidity and multiple functional limitations was consistently associated with the levels of household wealth, sense of control over one's life, physical activity and loneliness. Larger health inequalities were observed when

SUBMITTER: Singer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6551564 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature