Similarity of Perceived Health Between Household Members: The 'Mutual Influences' Hypothesis
| Autor: | Viviana Egidi, Patrizia Giannantoni |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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perceived health
household mutual influences contextual influences on health 05 social sciences contextual influences on health Self perceived health mutual influences Health perception Perceived health household 050902 family studies 0502 economics and business Social determinants of health 050207 economics 0509 other social sciences Psychology Social psychology Mutual influence Interview survey |
| Zdroj: | A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe ISBN: 9783319723556 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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