Social Inequalities in Health‐Related Quality of Life Among Chinese Older Adults Across Multimorbidity Patterns

• Published in: Health & social care in the community Vol. 2025; no. 1
• Main Authors: Yu, Yue-Hui, Xu, Bo, Mao, Ya-Xuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2025
• Subjects: Activities of daily living; Aging; Arthritis; Cardiovascular disease; Chronic illnesses; Chronic pain; Comorbidity; Diabetes; Education; Gender; Health disparities; Health education; Health insurance; Health status; Hypertension; Income; Independent living; Inequality; Latent class analysis; Longitudinal studies; Mental depression; Older people; Pain; Participation; Personal income; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Retirement; Self care; Social inequality; Social participation; Sociodemographics; Socioeconomic factors; Symptoms; Variables; China

Background: Although social inequalities in health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) have been widely studied, little is known about how they differ across multimorbidity patterns. To address this knowledge gap, this study examined how social inequalities in HRQOL vary by multimorbidity patterns among...