Reliability of Self-rated Health in US Adults

The association of BMI with functional status and self-rated health in US adults.

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of BMI with functional status and self-rated health among US adults and how the association differs by age and sex. METHODS AND PROCEDURES All analyses are based on the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), 1997-2005, a yearly, representative study of the US household population. We pooled all survey years and fitted logistic regression for the two sexe...

Socioeconomic Status, Self-Rated Health, and Mortality in a Multiethnic Sample of US Adults

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between socioeconomic status (SES), self-rated health (SRH), and mortality separately by race-ethnicity in a nationally representative sample of US adults. METHODS We analyzed data from 16 716 adult women and men who were followed up for mortality for up to 12 years as part of the third National Health and Nutrition Examination survey (NHANES III). Poverty...

The Determinants of Self–Rated Oral Health in Istanbul Adults

Dimensions of self-rated health in older adults

OBJECTIVE To analyze the association between negative self-rated health and indicators of health, wellbeing and sociodemographic variables in older adults. METHODS Cross-sectional study that used data from a population-based health survey with a probability cluster sample that was carried out in Campinas, SP, Southeastern Brazil,, in 2008 and 2009. The participants were older adults (≥ 60 yea...

Substance-use coping and self-rated health among US middle-aged and older adults.

The prevalence of alcohol, drug, and tobacco use among US middle-aged and older adults is increasing. A subset of this population uses substances to cope with stress, but the characteristics of these individuals, and the association between substance-use coping and health outcomes remain unclear. We identified correlates of substance-use coping and measured its association with self-rated healt...