Self-assessed health and mortality: could psychosocial factors explain the association?
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Self-assessed health and mortality: could psychosocial factors explain the association?
BACKGROUND The single-item question of self-assessed health has consistently been reported to be associated with mortality, even after controlling for a wide range of health measurements and known risk factors for mortality. It has been suggested that this association is due to psychosocial factors which are both related to self-assessed health and to mortality. We tested this hypothesis. MET...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/31.6.1162