Subjective and Objective Health of the Population Aged 50+ and the Welfare State Regimes in 16 European Countries

Abstract

Health at 50+ issues are particularly important now, when the inevitable increase in the old-age dependency ratio calls for governmental involvement in measures that are aimed at mitigating the negative effects of population aging in Europe. The investigations of differences between the subjective and objective health measures in a welfare state regime perspective have not been conducted before although it can be assumed that such analyses might provide valuable information about the impact of welfare regime on health as well as about the interchangeability between the self-reported and measured health.

Keywords

• subjective health
• objective health
• welfare state regime
• aging
• logistic regression
• multilevel analysis
• share
• i10
• i14
• i18