Journal
PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
Volume 120, Issue -, Pages 107-112Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.12.029
Keywords
Preventive healthcare; Personality; Older population; Ireland
Funding
- Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
- Irish Department of Health
- Atlantic Philanthropies
- Irish Life
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There is extensive empirical evidence that personally is associated with many outcomes and behaviours, such as educational outcomes, labour market participation, savings behaviour, health behaviours, physical health status and mortally. Use of preventive healthcare services (e.g., vaccinations, screening, etc.) is a potential pathway explaining the link between personally and health, and is an important component of healthy ageing. We examine the association between personally traits (the 'Big Five') and a variety of preventive healthcare utilisation measures in the older population. Using data from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), we estimate Poisson models of preventive healthcare utilisation (influenza vaccination, blood cholesterol test, breast lump check, mammogram, prostate examination, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test). We find that openness to experience is a significant predictor of breast lump check and mammogram in women aged 65+ after adjustment for other confounders and multiple hypothesis testing. While uptake of many preventive healthcare services remains below national recommendations for the older population, with the exception of breast lump checks and mammograms for women aged 65+, we find lithe evidence to link this heterogeneity in uptake to personally.
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