| Social capital and self-rated health in the Republic of Ireland: evidence from the European Social survey. | |
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PMID: 17955705 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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This paper analyses the determinants of self-reported health in Ireland, conditioning self-reported health on a set of socio-economic, labour market and social capital variables. Ireland has the highest self-reported health rate in Europe, a finding backed-up by other studies. Data were derived from the 2002 and 2005 European Social survey. The full 87,915 observations from both rounds were pooled and used to estimate mean self-rated health across Europe. The Irish data were isolated, totalling 2,049 individuals for 2002 and 2,286 individuals for 2005. The 2002 data were used to analyse the determinants of subjective health state, as it had a richer array of social capital variables. The results demonstrate statistically significant effects of income on self-reported health that are robust to different statistical specifications and statistically significant though modest effects of social capital variables such as associational membership and frequency of social meeting and labour market variables such as being on a limited as opposed to permanent contract. |
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Authors:
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L Delaney; P Wall; F O'hAodha |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Irish medical journal Volume: 100 ISSN: 0332-3102 ISO Abbreviation: Ir Med J Publication Date: 2007 Sep |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2007-10-24 Completed Date: 2007-12-06 Revised Date: 2009-10-26 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0430275 Medline TA: Ir Med J Country: Ireland |
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Languages: eng Pagination: suppl 52-6 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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UCD Geary Institute. liam.delaney@ucd.ie |
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Age Factors Attitude to Health* Data Collection Employment / economics, statistics & numerical data Europe Female Health Status* Humans Interviews as Topic Ireland Male Poverty / economics, statistics & numerical data Social Class* Social Support* Socioeconomic Factors |
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