Environmental Impacts on Health - A multilevel analysis on the effect of household characteristics on self-rated health
Recent research reports that inequalities in health are not only the result of individual behaviour but also of environmental influences. This study analyses on household-level, whether such an environmental influence on self-rated health can be found. Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel, three latent dimensions of environment have been constructed: „quality of life“, „social environment“, and „infrastructure“. Via multilevel regressions it could be shown, that, under control of individual socio–demographic characteristics, a household’s level of quality of life as well as its infrastructure do have a significant effect on its members’ self-rated health, whereas no significant effect could be found for a household’s social environment.
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2010
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Authors: | Müller, Nora |
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Zeitschrift für Nachwuchswissenschaftler - German Journal for Young Researchers. - ISSN 1869-6139. - Vol. 2.2010, 1, p. 6-26
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Subject: | Self-rated health | inequality | environment | multi-level regression | GSOEP |
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