BACKGROUND Previous studies on the role of gender in the association between self-rated health and mortality have shown contrasting results. This study was aimed to determine the importance of gender in the association between self-rated health and mortality among older people in Santiago, Chile. METHODS A 10 year follow-up of 1066 people aged 60 or more, from the Chilean cohort of the Study ...

OBJECTIVES It is hypothesised that across two national surveys poor self-rated health will be independently associated with somatisation and will result in high rates of service use after adjusting for established diagnoses. DESIGN Two cross-sectional population-based surveys were conducted in 1997 and 2007. The use of both surveys allowed replication of results. SETTING Australia. PARTIC...

This paper evaluates racial/ethnic differences in self-rated mental health for adults in the United States, while controlling for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics as well as length of stay in the country. Using data from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey Cancer Control Supplement (NHIS-CCS), binomial logistic regression models are fit to estimate the association between rac...