Utilisation of community care services and self-rated health among elderly population in China: a survey-based analysis with propensity score matching method.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Elderly care and elderly health are the enormous challenges in such an aging society as China. Community care services have been developing rapidly in recent years in China as an increasingly mainstream care resource to promote elderly health. The purpose of this study is to examine the association between using community care services and self-rated health among Chinese elderly.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2019 and 612 elderly people from China's Shaanxi province were enrolled. The binary logistic regression was first employed to explore the association between community care services utilisation and elderly health. Given the potential selection bias issue, the propensity score matching method was hired to generate comparable samples between

SUBMITTER: Yang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8546940 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature