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Education, material condition and physical functioning trajectories in middle-aged and older adults in Central and Eastern Europe: a cross-country comparison

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F75010330%3A_____%2F16%3A00011449" target="_blank" >RIV/75010330:_____/16:00011449 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://jech.bmj.com/content/70/11/1128" target="_blank" >http://jech.bmj.com/content/70/11/1128</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2015-206548" target="_blank" >10.1136/jech-2015-206548</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Education, material condition and physical functioning trajectories in middle-aged and older adults in Central and Eastern Europe: a cross-country comparison

  • Original language description

    Background Two competing hypotheses, cumulative advantage/disadvantage and age-as-leveller, have been proposed to explain the contradictory findings on socioeconomic differences in health over the lifespan. To test these hypotheses, this investigation examined the influence of educational attainment and material condition on individual trajectories of physical functioning (PF) in unexplored ageing populations in Central and Eastern Europe. Methods 28 783 men and women aged 45-69 years selected from populations in seven Czech towns, Krakow (Poland) and Novosibirsk (Russia). PF was measured by the Physical Functioning Subscale (PF-10) of the Short-Form-36 questionnaire (SF-36) at baseline and three subsequent occasions. The highest educational attainment was self-reported at baseline, and material condition was captured by the sum score of 12 household amenities and assets. Results In all cohorts, participants with a university degree had the highest PF-10 score at baseline and slowest rate of decline in the score during follow-up, while the lowest baseline scores and fastest decline rate were found in participants with less than secondary education in all cohorts and in Russians with secondary education. Similar disparities in the baseline PF-10 score and decline rate were observed across tertiles of material condition, but differences in decline rates across the three tertiles among Czechs or between the lower two tertiles among Russians were not statistically significant. Conclusions Disparities in PF by educational attainment and material condition among middle-aged and older adults in Central and Eastern Europe existed at baseline and widened during similar to 10 years of follow-up, supporting the cumulative advantage/disadvantage hypothesis.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

  • CEP classification

    FQ - Public health system, social medicine

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2016

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

  • ISSN

    0143-005X

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    70

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    11

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    8

  • Pages from-to

    1128-1135

  • UT code for WoS article

    000386516300011

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database