Wu, W.-N.; Lin, M.-Y.; Cai, X.; Chen, Y.-H.; Yu, C.-C. Life Quality, Socioeconomics Status, Citizens’ Self‐Assessed Health: Some Evidence and Implications. Preprints2018, 2018080525. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0525.v1
APA Style
Wu, W. N., Lin, M. Y., Cai, X., Chen, Y. H., & Yu, C. C. (2018). Life Quality, Socioeconomics Status, Citizens’ Self‐Assessed Health: Some Evidence and Implications. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0525.v1
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Wu, W., Yen-Hsu Chen and Ching-Chu Yu. 2018 "Life Quality, Socioeconomics Status, Citizens’ Self‐Assessed Health: Some Evidence and Implications" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201808.0525.v1
Abstract
Much has been explored in the individual health issue, and most of them adopt the objective data such as laboratory tests or health services utilization to analyze individual health assessment. However, the factors influencing individuals in self‐assessed health is still unclean. The study considers that self‐assessed health is viewed as catalyst in health management and explores various dimensions associated with self‐assessed health. Totally, 800 participants who were randomly sampled from the citizen of Porter County, Indiana completed the Needs Assessment Citizen Survey in 2007.After adjustment for age, gender, education, income, and health coverage, life quality (β=1.5538, sdandard erro of β=0.8404), and Medicaid assistance (β= -0.7715, sdandard erro of β= 0.3958) are the main determinants of individuals’ self‐assessed health. The results suggest that public health officials should consider improving citizens’ self-assessed health by providing good living and socio-economic environment.
Keywords
socioeconomic inequality; public health management; medicaid; citizen survey
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public Health and Health Services
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