caa a22 4500 397516940 CHVBK 20180308164621.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202s1995 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/eurpub/5.3.187 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/eurpub/5.3.187 Age, health and the measurement of the socio-economic status of individuals [Elektronische Daten] [SIJMEN A. REIJNEVELD, LOUISE J. GUNNING-SCHEPERS] Indicators of socio-economic status (SES) are associated with age. The aim of this paper is to analyse the modifying effects of age on the interpretation of a commonly used SES indicator, education level, in relation to health. A population-based health interview survey was conducted in 1992 and 1993 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Participants were members of the non-institutionalized population aged 16 years and over, selected randomly from the municipal population register after stratification for age and borough (N=5, 121; response rate 61.4%). The relative differences in poor self-rated health between educational levels vary strongly with age group. Among men the risk of poor health for the lowest education level relative to the mean for the age group concerned varies from 1.67 for the 16-34 years age group to 1.10 for the ≥65 years group. Logistic regression indicates that age modifies the relation of education level with self-rated health. We conclude that the interpretation of SES indicators differs by age group, especially if indicators are strongly associated with age. This modifying effect of age on the interpretation of SES needs to be corrected for in research on socio-economic health differences. © European Journal of Public Health ORIGINAL ARTICLES nationallicence socio-economic factors nationallicence educational status nationallicence epidemiologic methods nationallicence age factors nationallicence self-rated health nationallicence REIJNEVELD SIJMEN A. Amsterdam Municipal Health Service, Department of Epidemiology Amsterdam, The Netherlands aut GUNNING-SCHEPERS LOUISE J. Institute of Social Medicine, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands aut The European Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 5/3(1995), 187-192 1101-1262 5:3<187 1995 5 eurpub https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/5.3.187 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/5.3.187 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- REIJNEVELD SIJMEN A. Amsterdam Municipal Health Service, Department of Epidemiology Amsterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- GUNNING-SCHEPERS LOUISE J. Institute of Social Medicine, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The European Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 5/3(1995), 187-192 1101-1262 5:3<187 1995 5 eurpub Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford