Journal article
Background, Attitudinal and Behavioural Patterns of Individuals Occupying Eight Discrete Health States
Sociology of health & illness, Vol.3(1), pp.31-48
03/01/1981
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.ep11343599
PMID: 10252542
Abstract
Examined are backgrounds, attitudes, & behavioral characteristics of individuals occupying the eight discrete health states posited in Fredric D. Wolinsky's recently developed comprehensive health status model (The Sociology of Health: Principles, Professions, and Issues, Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1980). Data came from personal interviews with 500 Rs in 1978 in a Ru NC county. Analysis of variance indicates that age, occupation, education, income, private indemnity insurance coverage, expecting sick role legitimation, use of MD specialists, & having regular sources & sites of health care delivery are differentially distributed across the eight health states. Multiple classification & discriminant function analyses indicate that the pattern reflected in these data is the traditional relationship of health status to SES, its second-order benefits, & its correlates. Of the Ss, 41% could be correctly placed into their proper health states by using two discriminant functions reflecting SES & related characteristics. Regression models using these same SES & related characteristics explained 32% of the variance in both an abbreviated form of the polytomous health status measure & a continuously coded version of it. Based on the differential utility of regression models severally predicting the individual health states, it is proposed that the SC & drift hypotheses be merged to explain the pervasive relationship between SES & health status. 4 Tables. Modified HA.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Background, Attitudinal and Behavioural Patterns of Individuals Occupying Eight Discrete Health States
- Creators
- Fredric WolinskySally Wolinsky
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Sociology of health & illness, Vol.3(1), pp.31-48
- DOI
- 10.1111/1467-9566.ep11343599
- PMID
- 10252542
- ISSN
- 0141-9889
- eISSN
- 1467-9566
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/1981
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Record Identifier
- 9984363599702771
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