Open Conference Systems, 50th Scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society

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Non-communicable diseases, socio-economic status, lifestyle and well-being in Italy: An additive Bayesian network model
Laura Maniscalco, Domenica Matranga

Last modified: 2018-05-18

Abstract


Abstract The aim of the paper is to investigate the statistical association, ona sample of Italian subjects, between chronic diseases (occurrence or number ofchronic diseases) and socio-economic and behavioural determinants (lifestyle indicators,QoL indicators, cognitive functioning variables). For this reason, additiveBayesian network (ABN) analysis was used to identify factors associated with thenon-communicable disease. The resulting ABN model shows that better-educatedindividuals obtain better health outcomes from a fixed set of covariates, age is directand gender is an indirect determinant of the number of chronic diseases. Furthermore,self-perceived health is associated with lower number of chronic diseases,lower physical limitations and higher quality of life and these indicators can be consideredwithin a unitary vision to represent well-being of elderly people, as theyshare a similar distribution by gender and age.

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