HEALTH‐RELATED EXPENDITURE PATTERNS IN SELECTED MIGRANT GROUPS: DATA FROM THE AUSTRALIAN HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE SURVEY, 1984
作者:
J. Powles,
B. Hage,
M. Cosgrove,
期刊:
Community Health Studies
(WILEY Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 14,
issue 1
页码: 1-7
ISSN:0314-9021
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1111/j.1753-6405.1990.tb00014.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractAustralians born in Italy, Greece and East and South East Asia all have substantially lower mortality levels than those born in Australia, the British Isles or Holland and Germany. Using data from the 1984 Household Expenditure Survey, the health‐related consumption expenditure of these six groups was compared (excluding expenditure on medical care). The heterogeneity of household types was largely removed by confining attention to married couple households with dependent children.The two groups with mortality levels comparable to those of the Australian‐born (British Isles and Holland/Germany) also shared a similar pattern of consumption expenditures. There was a tendency (not always fully consistent), for the low mortality groups to spend more on fruits, vegetables, cereal products and fish and substantially less on alcohol. Patterns that might be ‘unexpected’ in low mortality groups are the (presumptively) substantial expenditures on tobacco among males (especially in the Greek group) and the substantial expenditures on red meat in all three groups.Analysis of available data sets such as this can provide useful descriptions of the distribution of health‐influencing behaviour in our p
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