The effect of risk factors on disability: a multistate analysis of the U.S. Health and Retirement Study

M. Reuser

The effect of risk factors on disability: a multistate analysis of the U.S. Health and Retirement Study

M. Reuser

Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD thesis

Abstract

As life expectancy increases the question whether an extended life does not result in a longer period of disability at its end. With rising life expectancy and age-related morbidity, are years to live with disability expanded or compressed, or is it a mix? Risk factors like smoking, body-mass index (BMI) and education have proven to play an important role in the duration of disability. This study uses the U.S. Health and Retirement Study and multistate life table analyses to unravel the effect of risk factors at middle and old age. The life table summarizes age-specific incidence, recovery and mortality rates into life years with or withoud impairment. Individual disability trajectories have been estimated using microsimulation. Results from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study demonstrate that smoking, BMI and education have completely different effects on age at onset and duration of physical and cognitive impairment.

Original language	Undefined
Qualification	Doctor of Philosophy
Awarding Institution	University of Groningen
Supervisors/Advisors	Willekens, F.J. (Frans), Promotor Bonneux, L.G.A., Promotor
Award date	28 Oct 2010
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	Rozenberg Publishers
Print ISBNs	978 90 3610 205 6
Publication status	Published - 2010

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