Social determinants of health and frailty are associated with all-cause mortality in older adults

Autor: Emmanuel González-Bautista, Betty Manrique-Espinoza, J Alberto Ávila-Funes, Nirmala Naidoo, Paul Kowal, Somnath Chatterji, Aarón Salinas-Rodríguez
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Salud Pública de México, Vol 61, Iss 5, sep-oct, Pp 582-590 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0036-3634
74480219
DOI: 10.21149/10062
Popis: Objective. To examine the longitudinal association between the social determinants of health (SDH) and frailty status with all-cause mortality in older Mexican adults. Materials and methods. Longitudinal study with a sample of adults aged 60 and over of Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE) in Mexico. A Cox proportional hazard model was used to estimate the SDH and frailty-related hazard ratios (HR) for mortality over the study period. Results. Overall mortality rate was 16.9%. Higher education, having a higher frequency of inter-personal contacts (HR=0.96; p
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