Urban-Rural Disparity in Cognitive Performance Among Older Chinese Adults: Explaining the Changes From 2008 to 2018.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study aims to identify the dynamic changes in cognitive performance differentials between urban and rural older adults in China from 2008 to 2018 and decomposes determinants affecting such changes.

Methods

Two waves (2008 and 2018) of data were extracted from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. The cognitive function was tested using the Chinese Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). The effects of the explanatory variables (demographic, economic, neighborhood, environmental events and social and cultural domains) on the changes in the urban-rural inequality of cognitive performance were divided into two components using the Juhn-Murphy-Pierce (JMP) decomposition: quantity effect and price effect.

Results

A total of 14,628 (urban responde

SUBMITTER: Zhang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8984104 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature