| Females | Males | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Good SRH | Poor SRH | p | Good SRH | Poor SRH | p |
1st Block - Social support and social network | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Perceived social support | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
  Live accompanied | 71.2 | 73.3 | 0.304 | 86.4 | 83.6 | 0.254 |
  One or more people to count on | 86.2 | 76.1 | <0.001 | 87.9 | 81.4 | 0.007 |
Social network | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Participation in group activities | 73.2 | 70.6 | 0.192 | 65.1 | 55.0 | 0.002 |
Received visits/have visited someone | Â | Â | 0.011 | Â | Â | 0.208 |
  None in the last 30 days | 17.0 | 22.9 |  | 18.8 | 19.9 |  |
  Once a month | 16.4 | 17.8 |  | 14.0 | 19.6 |  |
  Once every 15 days | 14.8 | 15.5 |  | 14.8 | 12.0 |  |
  1 to 3 times a week/almost every day | 51.8 | 43.8 |  | 52.4 | 48.5 |  |
2nd Block - Demographic | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Age group (years) | Â | Â | 0.525 | Â | Â | 0.464 |
  60 - 69 | 47.6 | 49.9 |  | 53.3 | 52.1 |  |
  70 - 79 | 39.5 | 37.1 |  | 37.2 | 36.1 |  |
  ≥ 80 | 12.9 | 13.0 |  | 9.4 | 11.8 |  |
3rd Block - Socioeconomic characteristics | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Years of schooling | Â | Â | <0.001 | Â | Â | <0.001 |
  No formal education | 7.6 | 7.9 |  | 4.1 | 7.3 |  |
  1 to 4 years | 35.4 | 44.0 |  | 25.9 | 36.1 |  |
  5 to 8 years | 26.3 | 26.8 |  | 23.8 | 25.7 |  |
  9 years or more | 30.7 | 21.3 |  | 46.2 | 31.0 |  |
Income level†|  |  | <0.001 |  |  | <0.001 |
  Up to 1 | 31.1 | 41.4 |  | 10.9 | 22.4 |  |
  1.0 to 3.0 | 38.1 | 40.7 |  | 16.8 | 18.8 |  |
  3.1 and over | 30.8 | 17.9 |  | 29.3 | 27.9 |  |
Employment status (working) | 21.4 | 13.7 | <0.001 | 40.1 | 28.6 | <0.001 |
4th Block - Health-related behaviours | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Regular physical activities‡ | 36.1 | 23.8 | <0.001 | 42.4 | 25.5 | <0.001 |
 Smoking |  |  | 0.889 |  |  | 0.123 |
  Former smoker | 21.9 | 21.2 |  | 50.1 | 52.8 |  |
  Current smoker | 7.3 | 6.9 |  | 11.5 | 15.1 |  |
5th Block – Use of health services |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Health insurance | 51.2 | 37.6 | <0.001 | 45.2 | 29.8 | <0.001 |
Use of public health services | 46.4 | 59.8 | <0.001 | 51.0 | 64.3 | <0.001 |
6th Block - Functional status and somatic health problems | ||||||
Functional status measures§ |  |  | <0.001 |  |  | <0.001 |
  Independent (ADL/IADL = 0) | 81.2 | 62.9 |  | 83.8 | 67.8 |  |
  Partially dependent (ADL = 0/IADL ≥ 1) | 14.5 | 26.2 |  | 13.4 | 20.8 |  |
  Dependent (ADL ≥ 1) | 4.3 | 10.9 |  | 2.8 | 11.4 |  |
Somatic health problems | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
Number of somatic health problems | Â | Â | <0.001 | Â | Â | <0.001 |
  0 | 7.6 | 0.9 |  | 17.0 | 4.8 |  |
  1 | 17.2 | 8.0 |  | 26.9 | 15.3 |  |
  2 - 4 | 60.3 | 57.6 |  | 49.9 | 60.5 |  |
  ≥ 5 | 15.0 | 33.5 |  | 6.2 | 19.3 |  |
Joint diseases | 52.8 | 70.8 | <0.001 | 26.8 | 38.7 | <0.001 |
Depression | 23.9 | 42.1 | <0.001 | 13.9 | 31.4 | <0.001 |
Hypertension | 61.6 | 77.5 | <0.001 | 54.8 | 68.0 | <0.001 |
Diabetes | 15.2 | 24.4 | <0.001 | 16.3 | 25.1 | 0.003 |