TY - JOUR
T1 - The health of older women after high parity in taft, Iran
AU - Hosseini-Chavoshi, Meimanat
AU - Abbasi-Shavazi, Mohammad Jalal
AU - Engelman, Michal
AU - Agree, Emily
AU - Bishai, David
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to acknowledge financial support from Gender Economics for Research and Policy Analysis and from the Hopkins Population Center. Support has also been provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health. We are grateful to the Department of Health in Taft district in Yazd, particularly, to Ahmad Reza Motallehi and Kazem Abbasi for support during the data collection. Daesha Ramachandran has offered helpful editorial assistance for which we are grateful.
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - High parity has been hypothesised to lead to a shorter and less healthy life. Using the 2007 Taft Ageing Health and Fertility Survey consisting of 696 women aged 50-79, this paper examines the extent to which women's health in middle and older ages is affected by their childbearing histories. The results show that high parity (>8) is associated with a reduction of GP-rated health by 0.094 points on a scale from 1 to 10. These health reductions are four times as large as those of an extra year of age, and are robust to controlling for birth interval, age, area of residence, education, marital status, work history, economic satisfaction and surviving daughters. There is a positive but curvilinear relationship between shorter birth intervals (<2 years) and GP-rated health accounting for socio-demographic factors. Our analysis suggests that parity and birth intervals, along with socio-demographic characteristics, affect women's well-being in later life.
AB - High parity has been hypothesised to lead to a shorter and less healthy life. Using the 2007 Taft Ageing Health and Fertility Survey consisting of 696 women aged 50-79, this paper examines the extent to which women's health in middle and older ages is affected by their childbearing histories. The results show that high parity (>8) is associated with a reduction of GP-rated health by 0.094 points on a scale from 1 to 10. These health reductions are four times as large as those of an extra year of age, and are robust to controlling for birth interval, age, area of residence, education, marital status, work history, economic satisfaction and surviving daughters. There is a positive but curvilinear relationship between shorter birth intervals (<2 years) and GP-rated health accounting for socio-demographic factors. Our analysis suggests that parity and birth intervals, along with socio-demographic characteristics, affect women's well-being in later life.
KW - Ageing
KW - Birth interval
KW - Fertility
KW - Health
KW - Iran
KW - Parity
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U2 - 10.1080/17441730.2011.608986
DO - 10.1080/17441730.2011.608986
M3 - Article
C2 - 25221610
AN - SCOPUS:80053504826
SN - 1744-1730
VL - 7
SP - 263
EP - 274
JO - Asian Population Studies
JF - Asian Population Studies
IS - 3
ER -