Health and Socio-Economic Status over the Life Course : : First Results from SHARE Waves 6 And 7.

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin/München/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2019.
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Year of Publication:2019
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (402 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Editors
  • Contributors
  • 1. A spotlight on health and life courses in Europe using SHARE Waves 6 and 7
  • Part I. Personality and childhood
  • 2. Personality, age and the well-being of older Europeans
  • 3. Personality and physical health among older Europeans
  • 4. Personality traits and financial behaviour
  • 5. Relationships with parents in childhood and well-being in later life
  • 6. Effects of adverse childhood experiences on mental well-being later in life
  • Part II. Health inequalities - Education and income
  • 7. Dynamic changes in determinants of inequalities in health in Europe with a focus on retirement
  • 8. Persistence in inequalities of frailty at older age: A comparison of nine EU countries
  • 9. How do early-life conditions shape health age profiles late in life?
  • 10. Tracking and educational inequality in health in later life
  • Part III. Labour market, occupation and retirement
  • 11. Long-term effects of different labour careers
  • 12. The economic situation of formerly self-employed workers
  • 13. Patterns of labour market participation and their impact on the well-being of older women
  • 14. End-of-working-life gender wage gap: The role of health shocks, parental education and personality traits
  • 15. Family dissolution and labour supply decisions over the life cycle
  • 16. Working conditions and health of older workers
  • Part IV. Social transitions and economic crises
  • 17. Health gap in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe: A life-course perspective
  • 18. What is hidden behind the 'obvious'? SHARE data raise the curtain about health, early retirement and elderly care of ageing Bulgarians
  • 19. The link to the past and the post-communist welfare state
  • 20. The economic crisis, fiscal austerity and long-term care: Responses of the care mix in three adjustment countries.
  • 21. Financial and non-financial transfers from parents to adult children after the economic crisis
  • Part V. Social context and health
  • 22. Changes in social networks and cognitive decline
  • 23. The role of social networks and disability in survival
  • 24. Social embeddedness of care recipients and their spousal caregivers
  • 25. The impact of living alone on physical and mental health: Does loneliness matter?
  • 26. Living alone in Europe and health behaviours
  • 27. Bereavement, loneliness and health
  • Part VI. Healthcare and health behaviour
  • 28. The social dynamics of unmet need, catastrophic healthcare expenses and satisfaction with health insurance coverage
  • 29. Differences in healthcare use between immigrant and local older individuals
  • 30. Life expectancy and health investments
  • 31. Multiple chronic conditions in older people in European countries: A network analysis approach
  • Part VII. Objective health
  • 32. Changes in body mass and cognitive decline - disentangling a seeming paradox
  • 33. The association between self-reported physical activity and physical performance: Does advancing age matter?
  • 34. Grip strength across Europe -North/ South and East/West divides
  • 35. End of life and palliative care in Europe: An exploration of SHARE data
  • Part VIII. Dried blood spot samples
  • 36. Dried blood spot samples and their validation
  • 37. Influence of fieldwork conditions and sample quality on DBS values
  • 38. Blood collection in the field - results and lessons from the polish test study
  • 39. Identification of cytokine and lipoprotein markers for analyses in SHARE Wave 6 dried blood spots.