Self-assessed health among older people in Europe and internet use.

ABSTRACT:

Background

About ten years ago, an age-related digital divide was identified, where 'the elderly' denoted a group of people at risk of losing the benefits of a digital society. The aims of this work are to find a relationship between self-assessed health and internet use by older people in European countries and to ascertain whether this relationship differs in countries with a more developed eHealth policy.

Materials and methods

An ordered logistic regression is estimated for all countries in the sample and for two countries subsets which differ in their eHealth performance. Individual data is collected by SHARE. The classifying criterion of eHealth performance is based on the 'eHealth' policy dimension of the indicator used to construct the Digital Economy and Society Inde

SUBMITTER: Tavares AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7392126 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature