Examining the continuity of self-rated health
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Examining the continuity of self-rated health.
BACKGROUND The study examines whether self-rated health forms a continuum from poor through average to good health in terms of two groups of health-related variables. METHODS The data come from the 1994 Finnish Survey on Living Conditions, a representative sample of Finnish men and women aged 25 years or older (n = 7290). Logistic regression analysis was used with two dependent variables: (1)...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/27.2.208