El Estado de Salud del Adulto Mayor en Uruguay

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El Estado de Salud del Adulto Mayor en Uruguay

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Máximo Rossi (Departmento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República)
Patricia Triunfo (Departmento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República)

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Maximo Rossi

Abstract

Basing on the survey on Health, Well-being and Aging (SABE-PAHO/WHO, 2001) the determinants of health status for the cohort of 60 years old and over in Montevideo are estimated. Sixty seven percent of older adults perceived their health status as good. Estimates for the different indicators of health used (self-assessment, chronic diseases and functional limitations) allow to state that the conditions during the first years of life, either nutritional, sanitary or economic, are determinants of health status in the final stages of life. The facts above referred become extremely important when allocating resources, which are scarce by definition, to improve the population health status. As shown by the literature, the expansion of education as well as the improvement of nutritional status during the early stages of life have proved to be more effective in increasing life span than clinical medicine. In a country where the levels of poverty mainly affect children -at present these represent 60% of poo

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Paper provided by Department of Economics - dECON in its series Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) with number 1404.

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- Maximo Rossi y Patricia Triunfo, 2004. "El estado de salud del adulto mayor en Uruguay," Econometric Society 2004 Latin American Meetings 113, Econometric Society.

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I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Production
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis

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