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A future for the E.U., dominated by an ever-increasing population of retired
citizens represents a major challenge to social and health policy in European countries.
Under Rowe and Kahn’s (Gerontol 37(4):433–440, 1997) perspective on positive aging,
this paper is interested in exploring the role of health on citizens’ active participation after
retirement and social engagement to life and quality of life. This paper also aims at finding
whether Sen’s (Public health, ethics, and equity. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004)
capability approach or cumulative disadvantage or advantage theory relative to the access
to health also verifies in a context of multi-national developed economies. The first part of
this study is therefore concerned with generating a health indicator that enables this, whilst
controlling for individual heterogeneity in self-rated health responses from 10,859 retired
individuals from the SHARE survey. Socioeconomic determinants of health are found not
to be critical in determining health in such a developed context whilst cumulative
advantage is found relevant for the positive aging of Europeans. Evidence is found that
active engagement in activities and quality of life are most certainly a prerogative for the
more educated and the healthier retirees, hinting a strategy for European policymakers:
cumulative advantage, leveraged by education and health policy, might just be the long-term strategy for contouring an aging and unproductive European population, transforming
what could be a ‘burden’ into an asset.
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Health policy strategies Active aging Well-being Econometric modeling
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REBELO, L.P. ; PEREIRA, Nuno Sousa - Assessing Health Endowment, Access and Choice Determinants: Impact on Retired Europeans’ (In)activity and Quality of Life. Social Indicators Research. ISSN 1573-0921. (January 2014), 36 p.
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Springer