Publication year: 2011
Source: Social Science & Medicine, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 August 2011
Dujardin, Claire , Farfan-Portet, Maria-Isabel , Mitchell, Richard , Popham, Frank , Thomas, Isabelle , …
The aim of this paper is to determine whether the association between the provision of informal care and the health status of caregivers is affected by the country of residence. We focus on two European countries, Belgium and Great Britain, and develop a methodology, which consists of matching a subset of areas from Britain with areas in Belgium that are demographically and socioeconomically similar. These pairs of areas are then used as fixed effects in logistic regressions of poor health. This allows us to take into account the influence of area type on health and to remove the influence of…