The relationship between educational attainment and hospitalizations among middle-aged and older adults in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There has been little research on the relationship between education and healthcare utilization, especially for racial/ethnic minorities. This study aimed to examine the association between education and hospitalizations, investigate the mechanisms, and disaggregate the relationship by gender, race/ethnicity, and age groups.

Methods

A retrospective cohort analysis was conducted using data from the 1992-2016 US Health and Retirement Study. The analytic sample consists of 35,451 respondents with 215,724 person-year observations. We employed a linear probability model with standard errors clustered at the respondent level and accounted for attrition bias using an inverse probability weighting approach.

Results

On average, compared to having an education less t

SUBMITTER: Yue D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8449049 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature