TAILIEUCHUNG - Health Problems and Disability of Elderly Individuals in Two Population Groups from Same Geographical Location

This paper focuses on the issue of reporting errors in subjective health measures. We state assumptions under which we can use relatively simple methods to assess the relative importance of state dependent reporting errors in individual responses to health questions. The methods proposed in this paper could be used directly to purge reporting biases from the subjective health responses to generate unbiased measures of health that can be used in subsequent analyses. The methods are applied on Dutch data , It may be clear from the discussion in. | Original Article Health Problems and Disability of Elderly Individuals in Two Population Groups from Same Geographical Location GK Medhi NC Hazarika PK Borah J Mahanta Abstract Objective To compare morbidity disability ADL-IADL disability along with behavioral and biological correlates of diseases and disability of two elderly population groups tea garden workers and urban dwellers living in same geographical location. Methods Two hundred and ninety three and 230 elderly from urban setting and tea garden respectively aged 60 years were included in the study. Subjects were physical examined and activity of daily living instrumental activity of daily living ADL-IADL was assessed. Diagnosis of diseases was made on the basis of clinical evaluation diagnosis and or treatment of diseases done earlier elsewhere available investigation reports and electrocardiography. Hypertension was defined according to JNC-VI classification. BMI weight height2 was calculated. Logistic regression analysis was performed to see the impact of important background characteristics on non-communicable diseases NCD and disability. Results Hypertension urban - 68 and tea garden - musculoskeletal diseases urban - and teagarden - COPD and other respiratory problems urban - and tea garden - cataract urban and tea garden - 33 gastro-intestinal problems urban - 13 and tea garden - were more commonly observed health problems among community dwellings elderly across both the groups. However in contrast to urban group serious NCDs like Ischaemic Heart Disease IHD diabetes were yet to emerge as health problems among tea garden dwellers. Infectious morbidities undernutrition and disability ADL-IADL disability were more pronounced among tea garden dwellers. Utilization of health service by tea garden elderly was very low in comparison to the urban elderly. Both tea garden men and women had very high rates of risk factors like use of non-smoked tobacco and consumption of .

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