9. Please change “health” and “better health” to “self-rated health” or “better self-rated health”.

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...

BACKGROUND Self-rated health (SRH) is not only used to measure health status and health inequalities, but also as a strong predictor of morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to: 1) evaluate the factors that account for variations in self-rated health among Chinese citizens; and to 2) explore the process through which socio-economic status may impact self-rated health. METHODS...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictors of self-rated health status for Texas adults using the current 2003 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data. Self-rated health is generally accepted as a valid measure of health status in population studies, and understanding its correlates may help public health professionals prioritize health-promotion and diseas...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to investigate the contribution of chronic conditions and disabilities to poor self-rated health from the perspectives of the patient and the population: (a) What is the impact of seven somatic chronic conditions on self-rated health, independent of disabilities? and (b) To what extent can poor self-rated health be attributed to the selected chronic condition...

OBJECTIVES Despite the well-established association between self-rated health and mortality, research findings have been inconsistent regarding how men and women differ on this link. Using a national sample in the United States, this study compared American male and female older adults for the predictive role of baseline self-rated health on the short-term risk of mortality. METHODS This long...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the self-rated health of the UK military and explore factors associated with poor self-rated health. Compare self-rated health of the military to the general population. DESIGN A cohort study. PARTICIPANTS A total of 7626 serving and ex-serving UK military personnel, aged between 25 and 49; 19,452,300 civilians from England and Wales. SETTING United Kingdom (milit...

This article provides norms for general taboo, personal taboo, insult, valence, and arousal for 672 Dutch words, including 202 taboo words. Norms were collected using a 7-point Likert scale and based on ratings by psychology students from the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The sample consisted of 87 psychology students (58 females, 29 males). We obtained high reliability based...