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The Quality of Life and Mortality risk of Elderly People in Rural China: The Role of Family Support
Working PaperAuthors
Huijun Liu - Institute for Population and Development Studies, School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, China; School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi
Yanzhi Cai - School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, China
Shuzhuo Li - Institute for Population and Development Studies, School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, 710049, China; School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi
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Asia Health Policy Program working paper # 30, June, 2012
The elderly share of China’s population is projected to grow well beyond the capacity of the nation’s social security system. Meanwhile, family care is being challenged by a decline in fertility and an increase in migration from rural to urban areas. This paper examines the short-, mid-, and long-term effects of family support on elderly well-being in rural China, using four-wave panel data on 1,456 persons aged 60 and above in the Chaohu region of China. Findings showed that compared with living alone, being coresident with others lowered the mortality risk of several chronic diseases; but being coresident with adult children increased the mortality risk of cardiovascular diseases, though it was associated with a higher quality of life in the short and middle term. Children’s educational attainment and financial support increased the quality of life except for an increased risk of new incidence of cardiovascular disease in the middle term.
The link to the Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health:
http://aph.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/01/24/1010539512472362
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Topics: Aging | Disease | Health policy | Migration and Citizenship | Public Health | Security | Asia-Pacific | China
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