Mortality in South Africa: Socio-economic profile and association with self-reported health

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dc.creatorArdington, Cally
dc.creatorGasealahwe, Boingotlo
dc.date2014-06-04T10:28:24Z
dc.date2014-06-04T10:28:24Z
dc.date2014
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T10:06:36Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T10:06:36Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.descriptionThis paper exploits the first two waves of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) to describe the socio-economic profile of mortality and to assess whether self-rated health status is predictive of mortality between waves. Mortality rates in NIDS are in line with estimates from official death notification data and display the expected hump of excess mortality in early and middle adulthood due to AIDS, with the excess peaking earlier for women than for men. We find evidence of a socio-economic gradient in mortality, with higher rates of mortality for individuals from asset-poor households and with lower levels of education. Consistent with evidence from many industrialised countries and a few developing countries, we find self-rated health to be a significant predictor of two-year mortality, an association that remains after controlling for socio-economic status and several other subjective and objective measures of health.
dc.identifierArdington, C. & Gasealahwe, B. (2014). Mortality in South Africa: Socio-economic profile and association with self-reported health, Development Southern Africa, 31(1): 127-145.
dc.identifierhttp://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CQIgHWEMkTWJfqzUz8Gj/full#.VA6ybvmSz9U
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/698
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Self-reported health KW - Mortality KW - South Africa KW - NIDS KW - AIDS KW - Socio-economic profile of mortality LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Mortality in South Africa: Socio-economic profile and association with self-reported health TI - Mortality in South Africa: Socio-economic profile and association with self-reported health UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/698 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/698
dc.languageen
dc.publisherDevelopment Southern Africa
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectSelf-reported health
dc.subjectMortality
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectNIDS
dc.subjectAIDS
dc.subjectSocio-economic profile of mortality
dc.titleMortality in South Africa: Socio-economic profile and association with self-reported health
dc.typeJournal Article
uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceArticleen_ZA
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