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Influence of the Education Level on Health of Elderly People

Authors:
Agnieszka Bielinska
Mikolaj Majkowicz
Dorota Bielinska-Waz
Piotr Waz

Keywords: Social medicine; Biomedical datasets; Medical informatics; Visualizing data; Correspondence analysis; World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF); Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)

Abstract:
In the present work, the relation between the level of education of elderly people and their health and quality of life has been studied. The studies have been performed in Poland. The collected data have been analyzed using the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire (an abbreviated version of the WHOQOL-100), and the Geriatric Depression Scale. In both cases, we have observed a large influence of the education level on health. In most cases, the higher the education, the more positive the results. A large influence of the marital status on the overall quality of life and general health of the Polish pensioners has also been observed.

Pages: 6 to 11

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: March 25, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-618-7

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from March 25, 2018 to March 29, 2018