AIMS The aim of this study was to investigate differences according to country of birth and parental country of birth, in relation to poor self-rated health (SRH), in Swedish adolescents. METHODS The Scania public health survey among children and adolescents, conducted in 2012, is a cross-sectional study including most pupils in grade 9 (15 years old), including in 32 of 33 municipalities. Th...

Aim: To explore the experiences of self-reported health (SRH) of 6-year-old boys and girls. Background: The goals for the Swedish School Health Services (SHS) are to identify health problems, take measures to prevent illness, and promote health. One approach used to achieve this is the use of the Health Dialogue (HD) questionnaire. The HD is offered at three occasions during compulsory school a...

Low self-related health (SRH) is one, single-item, measure of low chronic general health. SRH has been shown to be a predictor of total cardiovascular mortality in prospective studies of generally healthy populations.1–3 Several factors influence SRH scores, including medically diagnosed conditions, adverse lifestyle and other risk factors for total and cardiovascular mortality (including age),...

INTRODUCTION mHealth as a technical area has seen increasing interest and promise from both developed and developing countries. While published research from higher income countries on mHealth solutions for adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is growing, there is much less documentation of SRH mHealth interventions for youth living in resource-poor settings. We conducted a global la...

BACKGROUND Self-rated health (SRH) is reported as a reliable predictor of disability and mortality in the aged population and has been studied worldwide to enhance the quality of life of the elderly. Nowadays, the elderly living alone, a particular population at great risk of suffering physical and mental health problems, is increasing rapidly in Japan and could potentially make up the majority...

In three studies published in IJE, authors examined whether the association between self-rated health (SRH) and mortality varied by socioeconomic status (SES). They then used the empirical results to comment on the potential discordance in the magnitude of social inequalities in health when estimated using SRH as opposed to mortality. The three studies, however, arrived at different conclusions...

BACKGROUND Self-rated health (SRH) has been widely used to measure the overall health status of older adults. Research has shown that SRH is determined by a large array of factors, such as chronic disease conditions, genetic markers (e.g., Apolipoprotein E, APOE, NM_000041), stress factors, and health behaviors. However, few studies have incorporated these factors simultaneously in the analytic...