作者
Aida Isabel Tavares
发表日期
2020/9/1
期刊
International journal of medical informatics
卷号
141
页码范围
104240
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
About ten years ago, an age-related digital divide was identified, where ‘the elderly’ denoted a group of people at risk of losing the benefits of a digital society. The aims of this work are to find a relationship between self-assessed health and internet use by older people in European countries and to ascertain whether this relationship differs in countries with a more developed eHealth policy.
Materials and methods
An ordered logistic regression is estimated for all countries in the sample and for two countries subsets which differ in their eHealth performance. Individual data is collected by SHARE. The classifying criterion of eHealth performance is based on the ‘eHealth’ policy dimension of the indicator used to construct the Digital Economy and Society Index. The average marginal effects are computed for the variable of internet use.
Results
Results show that older people who use the internet tend to report …
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