Socioeconomic differences in health: how much do health behaviors and health insurance coverage account for?
J Health Care Poor Underserved
; 15(4): 618-30, 2004 Nov.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15531819
ABSTRACT
As evidence accumulates that both unhealthy behaviors and inadequate access to health care are responsible in part for poor health, there is a tendency to attribute the differences in health status between the poor and the affluent to the higher prevalence of unhealthy behaviors and inadequate access to health care among people of low socioeconomic status (SES). The purpose of this study is to determine quantitatively how much health behaviors and health insurance coverage account for the SES disparity in health. The study employed secondary analysis of data collected through the Kentucky Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 2000. After adjusting for health behaviors and health insurance coverage, the differences in health among different levels of SES (measured by education and income) remained strong and significant. Health behaviors and health insurance coverage accounted for 10-16% of the socioeconomic differences in health.
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Temas:
ECOS
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Aspectos_gerais
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Equidade_desigualdade
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Estado_mercado_regulacao
Bases de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Fatores Socioeconômicos
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Comportamentos Relacionados com a Saúde
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Cobertura do Seguro
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Seguro Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Equity_inequality
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Patient_preference
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Health Care Poor Underserved
Assunto da revista:
SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2004
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos