Health and welfare profile of Australian baby boomers who live in rented accommodation – implications for the future
| Autor: | Rhiannon Pilkington, Eleonora Dal Grande, Constance Kourbelis, Anne W. Taylor, Helen Barry |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Taylor, Anne W, Pilkington, Rhiannon, Dal Grande, Eleonora, Kourbelis, Constance, Barrie, Helen |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Chronic condition
Labour economics Health (social science) Social Psychology Public housing media_common.quotation_subject Logistic regression 03 medical and health sciences Renting 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 030502 gerontology Economics risk factors 030212 general & internal medicine Risk factor Empirical evidence housing media_common rented accommodation Data collection business.industry Australia Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health baby boomers retirement Geriatrics and Gerontology 0305 other medical science business chronic disease Welfare policy Demography |
| Zdroj: | Ageing and Society. 39:685-702 |
| ISSN: | 1469-1779 0144-686X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0144686x17001088 |
| Popis: | Baby boomers who rent are often overlooked as an important sub-group. We aimed to assess the chronic conditions, risk factors, socio-economic factors and other health-related factors associated with renting in private or public housing. Data from telephone interviews conducted each month in South Australia between 2010 and 2015 were combined. Prevalence estimates were assessed for each risk factor and chronic condition by housing status. The association between housing status and variables of interest were analysed using logistic regression models adjusting for multiple covariates (age, gender, income, smoking, physical activity, area and year of data collection). Overall, 17.4 per cent of the 16,687 baby boomers interviewed were renting, either privately or using government-subsided housing. The health profile of renters (both private and public) was poorer overall, with renters more likely to have all of the chronic conditions and ten risk factors assessed. For public renters the relationships were maintained even after controlling for socio-economic and risk factor variables for all chronic diseases except osteoporosis. This research has provided empirical evidence of the considerable differences in health, socio-economic indicators and risk factors between baby boomers who rent and those who own, or are buying, their own homes. |
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