Cairney J, Arnold R
Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON.
Can J Public Health. 1996 May-Jun;87(3):199-203.
Despite the vast amount of literature on the relationship between social class and health, little work has been done on postretirement populations. Using the 1991 General Social Survey, a sample of respondents (N = 1,943) aged 65 to 99 were selected for analysis. Three social class variables, income adequacy, education and occupation, were used along with several lifestyle variables and demographic controls to predict six different measures of health status. The findings supported a "condition-specific" approach to the study of class differences in morbidity. Income adequacy was the most consistent class predictor of these health measures in this sample. As well, 'risky' lifestyle variables were used to test the hypothesis that such factors may mediate the relationship between class and health. This hypothesis was not well supported in these data.
尽管有大量关于社会阶层与健康关系的文献，但针对退休后人群的研究却很少。利用1991年综合社会调查，选取了1943名年龄在65岁至99岁之间的受访者作为样本进行分析。使用了三个社会阶层变量，即收入充足程度、教育程度和职业，以及几个生活方式变量和人口统计学控制变量来预测六种不同的健康状况指标。研究结果支持了一种“特定状况”的方法来研究发病率的阶层差异。在这个样本中，收入充足程度是这些健康指标最一致的阶层预测因素。此外，“有风险”的生活方式变量被用来检验这样一个假设，即这些因素可能介导阶层与健康之间的关系。在这些数据中，这个假设没有得到很好的支持。
