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Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 2006
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors related to self-rated health and to mortality among 2490 community-living elderly. Respondents were followed for 7.3 years for all-cause mortality. To compare the relative impact of each variable, we employed logistic regression analysis for self-rated health and Cox hazard analysis for mortality ...
Hiroshi Yatsuya, Hideaki Toyoshima
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The purpose of this study was to investigate factors related to self-rated health and to mortality among 2490 community-living elderly. Respondents were followed for 7.3 years for all-cause mortality. To compare the relative impact of each variable, we employed logistic regression analysis for self-rated health and Cox hazard analysis for mortality ...
Hiroshi Yatsuya, Hideaki Toyoshima
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Correlates of Self-Rated Health and Self-Rated Mental Health in Older Chinese Americans
Social Work in Public Health, 2016The present study examined the factors associated with self-rated health (SRH) and self-rated mental health (SRMH) in a sample of 108 older Chinese Americans (MeanAge = 70.6, SD = 7.70). SRH and SRMH were highly associated with each other. In the multiple regression models, chronic conditions and functional disability emerged as significant predictors ...
Yuri, Jang +3 more
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Correlates of self-rated health in the elderly
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 1991The relationship between self-rated health status and age group, gender, self-reported number of physical symptoms, functional capacity and level of activity was explored in a group of 133 elderly subjects ranging in age from 57 to 85 years. Self-rating of health was found to be a useful measure of health status, which is highly related to a number of ...
M N, Mitrushina, P, Satz
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Body Weight and Self-ratings of Health
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1995Does body weight affect self ratings of health? If yes, are health ratings affected by being overweight, underweight, or both? These questions are examined in this research note with data from a national sample of adults surveyed in 1986 (N = 3, 497). Obesity is associated with lower ratings of health among persons with similar levels of morbidity and ...
K F, Ferraro, Y, Yu
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Obesity as a Predictor of Self-rated Health
American Journal of Health Behavior, 2009To report on the relationship between self-rated health and obesity.Computer-assisted telephone survey of 5001 randomly selected individuals aged 18 years and over residing in California and Texas.Obese individuals have a 3-fold greater odds of reporting reduced health.
Marie-Hortence, Prosper +2 more
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2005
Abstract Many health-related quality of life questionnaires and health surveys contain questions of the type: ‘In general, would you say your health is: excellent, very good, good, poor or fair? ‘ or ‘What do you think of your own health condition compared to that of other men of your age?
Jakob B Bjorner +2 more
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Abstract Many health-related quality of life questionnaires and health surveys contain questions of the type: ‘In general, would you say your health is: excellent, very good, good, poor or fair? ‘ or ‘What do you think of your own health condition compared to that of other men of your age?
Jakob B Bjorner +2 more
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Health Lifestyles in Adolescence and Self-rated Health into Adulthood
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2017Do health behaviors cluster together as health lifestyles in adolescence? Are these lifestyles socially patterned? Do these lifestyles impact physical health into adulthood? To answer these questions, we employed data from Waves 1 and 4 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health ( n = 7,827).
Amy M, Burdette +3 more
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Adolescents' self-rated health
Glasnik javnog zdravlja, 2022Bearing in mind the social and political events that have taken place in this country in the last decade of the 20th and at the beginning of the 21st century, health of adolescents in this country shows certain specific characteristics. Adolescent health self-assessment, as a subjective health indicator in this population group, depends primarily on ...
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The Meanings of Self-Ratings of Health
Research on Aging, 1999Self-ratings of health are central measures of health status that predict outcomes such as mortality and declines in functional ability. Qualitative and quantitative data are used to test the hypothesis that definitions of health that are narrowly biomedical are associated with underestimates of self-ratings relative to respondents’medical histories ...
Ellen L. Idler +2 more
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