Predictors of elderly mortality:health status, socioeconomic characteristics and social determinants of health
利用台湾纵向调查数据，研究健康状况、社会经济特征和健康社会决定因素对老年人口死亡率的预测能力，发现日常生活活动能力指数预测效果优于自评健康或自报疾病，且生活满意度与生存率强相关。
This paper uses longitudinal survey data from Taiwan to investigate the predictors of elderly mortality. The empirical analysis confirms a relationship between socioeconomic characteristics and mortality, but this relationship weakens considerably when estimates are conditional on the health status at the time of the first wave survey. In terms of predictive power, the models with an activities of daily living index fare better (as opposed to models with self-evaluated health or self-reported illnesses). Having said that there is a payoff to the consideration of self-evaluated health jointly with other 'objective' health indicators. Other findings include a strong association between life satisfaction and survival, which prevails even after controlling for other explanatory variables.