@article{ref1,
title="Advantages and disadvantages across the life course and health status in old age among women in Chile",
journal="International journal of public health",
year="2019",
author="Madero-Cabib, Ignacio and Azar, Ariel and Pérez-Cruz, Pedro",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: Based on a life course perspective, we assessed the association between three types of social advantages and disadvantages accumulated across different life stages, with the number of self-reported chronic conditions among women aged 60 + in Chile, a Latin-American country with almost no reports on this matter. <br><br>METHODS: We used a population-representative longitudinal survey (Chile's Social Protection Survey) with information about childhood conditions, economic mobility across life, educational attainment, late adulthood labor-force trajectories, and later-life health, of 2627 women aged 60+. We then used sequence and Poisson regression analyses to assess the effect of life course (dis)advantages over the number of chronic conditions in old age. <br><br>RESULTS: Growing up in a poor household and experiencing downward economic mobility (especially among those with a non-poor childhood) increases the predicted number of chronic conditions in old age. By contrast, having a continuous and formal labor-force trajectory in late adulthood and higher educational attainment is associated with fewer chronic conditions later in life. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Policy measures that seek to foster health prevention and health care among older women should consider how multiple exposures to social advantages/disadvantages during earlier stages of the life course could affect health in late life.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-8556",
doi="10.1007/s00038-019-01300-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-019-01300-6"
}