Research On The Influence On The Elders' Health From Intergeneration

Since Chinese reform and opening up,our country have developed dramatically,people's lives have been improved constantly,and comprehensive national strength has been enhanced continuously.People's attentions have been transformed from how to survive to how to live better,from basic needs such as clothing and food to higher levels such as amusement,health and travelling.2030 Healthy Chinese Planning Outline published by the State Council in October 2016 points out:comprehensively promote people's healthy quality to realize coordinate development between people's health and economic society.In addition,in the process of urbanization,new generation of rural migrant workers and their families have to shoulder much pressure for buying a house in a city.The elders are forced to work harder in order to reduce the young's pressure,which has a bad influence on the former ones.There are still no agreements on the relationship and effectiveness between intergenerational support and the elders' health,which will be explained by this article.This article aims to study the influence on the elders' health from intergeneration which incorporates three aspects: economic support giving by the elders,communication situation between the elders and the young,and the elders' care for the third generation.The elders' healthy situations are evaluated by themselves.Based on the research of former scholars,this paper adopts several control variables such as basic personal feature,family background,life style and psychology.By binary logistic regression modal,this article analyses relationship between intergenerational support and the elders' health even from the aspect of gender.The conclusions are as follows: the elders would like to give more economic support to their children by working more,leading to worse health;technological development makes communication be more convenient,the children can contact their parents through QQ,Wechat,phone or face to face,and the more frequent to communicate,the better health their parents will have because of happy moods;The relationship between time for taking care of the third generation and the elders' health is inverted U-shaped curve,because firstly the elders' health will be better by frequent meetings with their children or doing their own things,but it will become worse when too long time and too much energy to look after the third generation;no matter the elder is a female or male,economic support for their children has no differences on their health,but communication frequency and care for the third generation have some differences.It coincides with Chinese tradition that severe father and kind mother,so children are away from their fathers and are close to their mothers relatively.