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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Public health and aging: health-related quality of life among low-income
persons aged 45-64 years
--United States, 1995-2001.
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, November 21, 2003; 52(46): 1120-4.

Abstract

Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) data are used to track population
trends, identify health disparities, and monitor progress in achieving
national health objectives for 2010. Low-income (i.e., annual household
income of <15,000 dollars) adults aged > or =55 years have substantially
more unhealthy days than low-income adults aged > or =65 years and adults
aged 55-64 years with higher incomes. To verify this finding and determine
whether it extends to low-income adults at younger ages, CDC analyzed HRQOL
and related factors among a subset of respondents to the 1995-2001
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) surveys. This report
summarizes the results of that analysis, which found that low-income adults
aged 45-64 years have worse HRQOL than all other adults. Unemployment,
inability to work, and activity limitation partially explain these HRQOL
disparities in this age-income group. Targeting these risk factors and
improving access to health care and social services (e.g., job training
programs) could help increase the quality and years of healthy life and
eliminate health disparities for persons in this age group.

Alice Furumoto-Dawson, Ph.D.
Society, Human Dvlpmt & Health Dept
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA

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