Self-rated health is influenced by socioeconomic circumstances, but related differences in its structure have received little attention. The objective of this study was to examine whether self-rated health structure differs according to socioeconomic circumstances in later life. The study included 1,505 individuals (86.4%) residing in Bambuí and aged 60 years or older. Correlates of self-rated ...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether self rated health confounds or modifies the relation between a prudent food intake pattern and mortality and to study whether the prudent food intake pattern predicts subsequent changes in self rated health. DESIGN A prospective cohort study with follow up of total mortality and changes in self rated health. Food intake patterns were identified by principal compon...

Background: Many studies examined and reported oral general health inequalities in clinical health, SROH SRH. Objectives: The study aims to explore the social influences, gradients predictors of self-rated (SROH) (SRH) wellbeing Greek adults. Methods: Cross-sectional study, men women, aged 65 years over (N = 743) Greece. Descriptive statistical analyses were performed for dentate edentulous par...

The present study investigated the prevalence of poor self-perceived oral health and its association with oral health, general health and socioeconomic factors among elderly individuals from São Paulo, Brazil. The sample consisted of 871 elderly individuals enrolled in the Health, Wellbeing and Aging cohort study. Self-perceived oral health was measured by the question: "How would you rate your...

BACKGROUND Adolescents' mental health is a major public health issue. Previous research has shown that socio-economic factors contribute to the health status of adolescents. The present study explores the association between socio-economic status and self-rated mental health among adolescents. METHODS Cross sectional data from the Halmstad Youth Quality of Life cohort was collected in a town ...

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...

BACKGROUND We evaluated how well physicians' global estimates of disease severity correspond to more specific physician-rated disease variables as well as patients' self-rated health and other patient variables. METHODS We analyzed baseline data from 1662 primary care patients with chronic cardiac or pulmonary disease who were enrolled in a longitudinal study of health-related quality of life...

Using the data from the European Social Survey (round 6, 2012), this article studies regional inequalities in self-rated health in Russia and examines the role that socio-demographic factors and economic and social capital play in these differences. Also, the regional variation in the determinants of self-rated health is analysed. The article argues that there are considerable and statistically...

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the associations of 18 activities of daily living with self-rated health in older people. DESIGN AND SETTING cross-sectional study of a representative sample of 781 people aged 65 or over (response rate: 89.9%). METHODS self-rated health was assessed by the question: "Overall, how would you rate your current health status-very good, good, fair, poor or very poor?" We u...