Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Popul Stud (Camb). 2009 Nov;63(3):295-306. doi: 10.1080/00324720903165464.
Using data from adults 50 years and older in Guatemala (N = 643), we assessed to what extent measures of individual capital-economic, social, intellectual, and biological-were associated with and account for variation in cognitive functioning, as measured by the Modified Mini-Mental Status Exam (M-MMSE). Measures of these components of individual capital are positively associated with cognitive functioning, and together with other attributes, account for 29.6 per cent of its variance. Schooling accounts for the largest unique share (5.3 per cent) of the variance, followed by household standard of living (2.0 per cent), church attendance (1.3 per cent), and z-score for height (0.9 per cent). In a setting like Guatemala-with low schooling, widespread poverty, malnutrition, and infectious disease-early life investments that increase schooling and improve nutrition may be valuable as investments to mitigate cognitive impairment in older adults and its contribution to the disease burden.
我们使用了危地马拉 50 岁及以上成年人的数据（N=643），评估了个体资本的各项指标——经济、社会、智力和生物——在多大程度上与认知功能相关联，并解释了认知功能的变化，该功能由改良的简易精神状态检查（M-MMSE）来衡量。个体资本的这些组成部分的衡量标准与认知功能呈正相关，并且与其他属性一起，占其变异性的 29.6%。受教育程度占最大的独特份额（5.3%），其次是家庭生活水平（2.0%）、教会出勤率（1.3%）和身高 z 分数（0.9%）。在危地马拉这样的环境中，教育程度低，普遍贫困，营养不良和传染病流行，增加教育程度和改善营养的早期生活投资可能是有价值的投资，可以减轻老年人的认知障碍及其对疾病负担的影响。
