Biological health or lived health: which predicts self-reported general health better?
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Biological health or lived health: which predicts self-reported general health better?
BACKGROUND Lived health is a person's level of functioning in his or her current environment and depends both on the person's environment and biological health. Our study addresses the question whether biological health or lived health is more predictive of self-reported general health (SRGH). METHODS This is a psychometric study using cross-sectional data from the Spanish Survey on Disabilit...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-189