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Effects of alcohol consumption on disability among the near elderly: a longitudinal analysis.

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Ostermann, J; Sloan, FA
Published in: The Milbank quarterly
January 2001

Data from four waves of the Health and Retirement Study are used to analyze the effects of alcohol use on disability, mortality, and income transfers from public programs. Cross-sectional analysis reveals a complex relationship, with a history of problem drinking clearly leading to higher rates of limitations, and a nonmonotonic relationship between current drinking and disability. In longitudinal analysis, problem drinking was predictive of disability onset, but not of transfer receipt or mortality. Heavy drinkers and problem drinkers, if anything, were less likely to receive public income support than abstainers or moderate drinkers. The likelihood that heavy drinkers received public transfers did not decrease relative to others following statutory changes in 1996 that sought to limit eligibility of alcoholics and drug abusers.

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The Milbank quarterly

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EISSN

1468-0009

ISSN

0887-378X

Publication Date

January 2001

Volume

79

Issue

4

Start / End Page

487 / iii

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Social Security
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Prevalence
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Logistic Models
  • Humans
  • Health Policy & Services
 

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Ostermann, J., & Sloan, F. A. (2001). Effects of alcohol consumption on disability among the near elderly: a longitudinal analysis. The Milbank Quarterly, 79(4), 487–iii. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.00219
Ostermann, J., and F. A. Sloan. “Effects of alcohol consumption on disability among the near elderly: a longitudinal analysis.The Milbank Quarterly 79, no. 4 (January 2001): 487–iii. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.00219.
Ostermann J, Sloan FA. Effects of alcohol consumption on disability among the near elderly: a longitudinal analysis. The Milbank quarterly. 2001 Jan;79(4):487–iii.
Ostermann, J., and F. A. Sloan. “Effects of alcohol consumption on disability among the near elderly: a longitudinal analysis.The Milbank Quarterly, vol. 79, no. 4, Jan. 2001, pp. 487–iii. Epmc, doi:10.1111/1468-0009.00219.
Ostermann J, Sloan FA. Effects of alcohol consumption on disability among the near elderly: a longitudinal analysis. The Milbank quarterly. 2001 Jan;79(4):487–iii.
Journal cover image

Published In

The Milbank quarterly

DOI

EISSN

1468-0009

ISSN

0887-378X

Publication Date

January 2001

Volume

79

Issue

4

Start / End Page

487 / iii

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Social Security
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Prevalence
  • Middle Aged
  • Male
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Logistic Models
  • Humans
  • Health Policy & Services