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Female fertility history and mid-late-life health
— findings from China | | Author(s) | Xiaomin Li, Quanbao Jiang, Shuzhuo Li, Marcus W Feldman |
| Journal title | Journal of Women and Aging, vol 30, no 1, January-February 2018 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, January-February 2018 |
| Pages | pp 62-74 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Middle aged ; Age groups [elderly] ; Children [offspring] ; Health [elderly] ; Self care capacity ; Quantitative studies ; China. |
| Annotation | China's middle-aged and older women suffer from poorer health than men. Using national baseline data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), a survey conducted from 2011 to 2012, this article applies logistic models to investigate the association between female fertility history (parity, early childbearing, late childbearing) and middle-aged and late-life health. The authors find that parity is related to women's mid to late-life health. Women with four children or more are more likely to suffer from activities of daily living (ADL) impairment and poorer self-rated health than those with one to three children. Early childbearing is associated with ADL impairment; however, the correlation is mediated by socioeconomic status. Early childbearing is related to self-rated health in later life by an indirect-only mediation effect via educational attainment and personal income. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180525224 A |
| Classmark | BD: SE: BB: SS: CC: CA: 3DQ: 7DC |
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