The Effect of Home Care on Chest Pain, Body Pain and Fall: An Empirical Study from CHARLS Data Using Propensity Score Matching

DOI

10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.53How to use a DOI?

Keywords

home care, physical health outcomes, propensity score matching

Abstract

In this paper, we aim to investigate the causal effects of home care on the elder people's physical health outcomes which mainly deals with body pain, chest pain and fall. We address the selection bias by using propensity score matching in the estimation process. We find that the elder people who were accompanied with home care in their daily life are less likely to have fall incidence. For the chest pain, we find that home care can help the elder people to reduce the probability of feeling chest pain. However, home care has no significant effects on body pain. Our results indicate that we should provide more home care to the elder people's body pain to prevent the depreciation of their health capital.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Peng Ouyang
AU  - Wenjun Sun
PY  - 2019/01
DA  - 2019/01
TI  - The Effect of Home Care on Chest Pain, Body Pain and Fall: An Empirical Study from CHARLS Data Using Propensity Score Matching
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Science, Public Health and Education (SSPHE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 224
EP  - 227
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.53
DO  - 10.2991/ssphe-18.2019.53
ID  - Ouyang2019/01
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