- Title
- Socio-demographic patterns of disability among older adult populations of low-income and middle-income countries: results from World Health Survey
- Creator
- Hosseinpoor, Ahmad Reza; Bergen, Nicole; Kostanjsek, Nenad; Kowal, Paul; Officer, Alana; Chatterji, Somnath
- Relation
- International Journal of Public Health Vol. 61, Issue 3, p. 337-345
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-015-0742-3
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Objective: Our objective was to quantify disability prevalence among older adults of low- and middle-income countries, and measure socio-demographic distribution of disability. Methods: World Health Survey data included 53,447 adults aged 50 or older from 43 low- and middle-income countries. Disability was a binary classification, based on a composite score derived from self-reported functional difficulties. Socio-demographic variables included sex, age, marital status, area of residence, education level, and household economic status. A multivariate Poisson regression model with robust variance was used to assess associations between disability and socio-demographic variables. Results: Overall, 33.3 % (95 % CI 32.2–34.4 %) of older adults reported disability. Disability was 1.5 times more common in females, and was positively associated with increasing age. Divorced/separated/widowed respondents reported higher disability rates in all but one study country, and education and wealth levels were inversely associated with disability rates. Urban residence tended to be advantageous over rural. Country-level datasets showed disparate patterns. Conclusions: Effective approaches aimed at disability prevention and improved disability management are warranted, including the inclusion of equity considerations in monitoring and evaluation activities.
- Subject
- disabled persons; developing countries; aged; socioeconomic factors; prevalence
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1344776
- Identifier
- uon:29497
- Identifier
- ISSN:1661-8556
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2015. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 IGO License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/), which permits unrestricted use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source. In any reproduction of this article there should not be any suggestion that WHO or this article endorse any specific organization or products. The use of the WHO logo is not permitted. This notice should be preserved along with the article's original URL.
- Language
- eng
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