The impact of childhood experience of starvations on the health of older adults: Evidence from China.
China
childhood experience of starvation
health
older adults
Journal
The International journal of health planning and management
ISSN: 1099-1751
Titre abrégé: Int J Health Plann Manage
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8605825
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2021
Mar 2021
Historique:
revised:
21
11
2020
received:
01
05
2020
accepted:
06
12
2020
pubmed:
18
12
2020
medline:
30
9
2021
entrez:
17
12
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This paper used pooled cross-sectional data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey to comprehensively investigate how childhood experiences of starvation affect the health of older Chinese adults. The study found that the childhood experience of starvation was negatively correlated with self-rated health, functional health and cognitive health among older adults. After using the model and variable substitution methods to address the endogeneity problems caused by omitted variables, the negative effects of childhood experiences of starvation on the health of older adults were still present. The Karlson-Holm-Breen decomposition method was used to test the mediation effects, and it was found that childhood experiences of starvation had adverse effects on the health of older adults through endowment insurance, household income, education and nutrition. Consequently, the government should strengthen nutrition or other related health interventions for children and make longer-term plans for improving the health of older adults.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
515-531Subventions
Organisme : MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences
ID : Project No.20YJCZH103
Informations de copyright
© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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