Social participation and 5-year all-cause mortality in older Chilean people

• Main Authors: Moisés H. Sandoval (Author), Marcela Alvear Portaccio (Author), Cecilia Albala (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2022-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We aimed to examine the degree to which social participation is associated with mortality risk in older adults in Chile. We used the Chilean National Survey on Elderly Dependency, which is linked to vital statistics, in order to obtain death records. Four proportional risk regression models were est...