Self-rated health, physician-rated health and associated factors among elderly men: the Finnish cohorts of the Seven Countries Study
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Self-rated health, physician-rated health and associated factors among elderly men: the Finnish cohorts of the Seven Countries Study.
OBJECTIVES To study self-rated and physician-rated health, to analyse concordance of the two methods and to examine factors explaining differences between self-rated and physician-rated health. DESIGN Population-based cross-sectional study. SETTING Finnish cohorts of the Seven Countries Study. SUBJECTS 470 men aged 70-89 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Self-administered questionnaire and c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Age and Ageing
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0002-0729,1468-2834
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/27.1.41