Self-perceived health, a subjective assessment of health status, is influenced by state of economic independence and employment status after controlling for other demographic, social and health-related factors, particularly for elderly people as they tend to face discrimination in intra-household resource allocation. Being economically independent and employed increase the likelihood of elderly people rating their health as good/excellent compared to others and employment status came out as even more impactful. This study provides new insights by observing that across the expenditure quintile groups of the households, the importance of these variables varies as the bias in intra-household resource allocation against elderly people is supposed to increase with declining economic resources of the households. Economic independence improves the likelihood of rating one's health as good/excellent in the lowest expenditure quintile much more compared to those in the uppermost expenditure quintile. For employed too, the positive influence of employment status on self-perceived health of elderly people has been strictly increasing as we move down the expenditure quintiles of households.

自我感知健康是对健康状况的主观评估，在控制其他人口、社会和健康相关因素后，受经济独立状况和就业状况的影响，特别是对于老年人，因为他们往往面临家庭内部资源的歧视分配。与其他人相比，经济独立和就业增加了老年人将自己的健康评为良好/优秀的可能性，就业状况的影响更大。这项研究提供了新的见解，观察到在家庭的支出五分之一组中，这些变量的重要性各不相同，因为随着家庭经济资源的下降，家庭内部资源分配对老年人的偏见会增加。与支出最高的五分之一相比，经济独立性提高了最低支出五分之一的人将自己的健康评为良好/优秀的可能性。对于就业者来说，就业状况对老年人自我感知健康的积极影响也随着家庭支出五分位数的下降而严格增加。