STUDY OBJECTIVES To examine the association between housing tenure and self rated health, controlling for socioeconomic measures and testing the mediating effects of physical features of the home, pollution in the local environment, and relationships with neighbours. DESIGN Cross sectional panel study with people nested within households. Analyses were performed using multilevel methods. SE...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the associations between self-rated health and social capital among Croatian high school students. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey among high school students was carried out in the 2013-2014 school year. SETTING High schools in Croatia. PARTICIPANTS Subjects were 3427 high school students (1688 males and 1739 females), aged 17-18 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Se...

BACKGROUND In order to screen for the most inactive individuals in the population and target health-related interventions where they are most needed it is important to assess different forms of physical activity in population-based studies. The aims were (1) to identify the most inactive individuals in the population by assessing two dimensions of physical activity, (2) to investigate the corre...

Objective To determine the relation between bad self-rated health (SRH) and outcomes of physical and mental health and geriatric syndromes over one year. Methods A prospective study. A cohort of 231 adults over 60 years of age from commune 18 in Santiago de Cali, Colombia were classified into good and poor self-rated of health status according to results of a primary measurement carried out in ...

Background and Objectives: Although studied extensively among adults, self-rated health (SRH) has not received the same research attention among adolescents. It has been suggested that SRH in adolescents may be a function of adolescents’ overall sense of functioning and may reflect psychosocial functioning more so than in adults. The rating of health as poor by adolescents might be a somatic ex...

OBJECTIVES Many studies of self-rated health show that it is a reliable predictor of mortality even when controlling for health-related variables and status characteristics. According to previous research, one reason for the consistent finding is that self-ratings of health represent judgments of health trajectories. Although self-ratings of health may be dynamic perceptions of health, relative...

BACKGROUND To estimate trends in leisure time physical activity and physical fitness between 1987-2006 in older Spanish people. METHODS We analyzed data collected from the Spanish National Health Surveys conducted in 1987 (n = 29,647), 1993 (n = 20,707), 1995-1997 (n = 12,800), 2001 (n = 21,058), 2003 (n = 21,650), and 2006 (n = 29,478). The number of subjects aged ≥ 65 years included in the ...