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A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in EuropeSimilarity of Perceived Health Between Household Members: The “Mutual Influences” Hypothesis

A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe: Similarity of Perceived Health... [Demographers and social epidemiologists have widely recognized that determinants of health operate on different levels. Among all of the relational networks, the family deserves a special place as it is the context where lifestyles and health-related behaviors are generally developed and shared. Using data from the Italian Health Interview Survey 2004/2005 for ages 18 and above, this chapter aims to provide an estimation of the magnitude of influence that the household has on self-perceived health, controlling for individual characteristics and the geographical context. We select three outcome variables to investigate perceived health: Physical Component Summary, Mental Component Summary, and poor Self-Rated Health. We develop an index of homogeneity within households and explore to what extent mutual influences of health perception exist within a household, resulting in a high resemblance of health for people living together, independent of or in addition to the effect of household covariates. Eventually, we try to gain a better understanding of the pathways through which these mutual influences are spread between people in the same household.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in EuropeSimilarity of Perceived Health Between Household Members: The “Mutual Influences” Hypothesis

Editors: Doblhammer, Gabriele; Gumà, Jordi

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018. This book is an open access publication.
ISBN
978-3-319-72355-6
Pages
133 –154
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-72356-3_7
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Demographers and social epidemiologists have widely recognized that determinants of health operate on different levels. Among all of the relational networks, the family deserves a special place as it is the context where lifestyles and health-related behaviors are generally developed and shared. Using data from the Italian Health Interview Survey 2004/2005 for ages 18 and above, this chapter aims to provide an estimation of the magnitude of influence that the household has on self-perceived health, controlling for individual characteristics and the geographical context. We select three outcome variables to investigate perceived health: Physical Component Summary, Mental Component Summary, and poor Self-Rated Health. We develop an index of homogeneity within households and explore to what extent mutual influences of health perception exist within a household, resulting in a high resemblance of health for people living together, independent of or in addition to the effect of household covariates. Eventually, we try to gain a better understanding of the pathways through which these mutual influences are spread between people in the same household.]

Published: Feb 13, 2018

Keywords: Mutual Influence; Household Coverage; Self-perceived Health; Homogeneous Health; Local Health Units

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