Abstract
Self-assessment on health and life satisfaction could be alternative measurements on social well-being. By using information from two waves (2011–12 and 2014) of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS), this study explores changes in self-rated health and life satisfaction and possible influential factors related to policy and social-economic changes. Self-rated health is less likely to be influenced by factors rather than changes in object indicators of health, while change in life satisfaction is more complicated. Improvement of financial status or having medical insurance is encouraging to improvement in life satisfaction. Elder people live in city and town is more likely to have improved self-rated health and life satisfaction during the observational period.
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This study is supported by National Science Foundation of China (71110107025, 71233001, 71490732) and NIA/NIH (R01AG023627-10; 2P01AG031719).
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Zheng, Z., Feng, T. (2022). Self-assessment of Health and Life Satisfaction Among Older Adults. In: Zeng, Y., Lu, J., Lei, X., Shi, X. (eds) Trends and Determinants of Healthy Aging in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4154-2_9
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