Subjective health is likely to confound the association between will-to-live and survival SIR—We enjoyed reading the inspiring study on will-to-live and survival in older home-dwelling people [1]. The association between will-to-live and survival in these patients looks striking. However, and although the association remained statistically significant after multivariate adjustments , will-to-li...

Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well‐Being?* In a new survey we ask respondents, after a standard Subjective Well‐Being (SWB) question, if they can think of changes in their lives that would improve their SWB score. If the SWB score is just one argument among others in the respondents’ goals in life, they should easily find ways to improve it, at the expense of other dimensions they...

Bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye’deki hanehalklarının öznel iktisadi iyi oluş ile sağlık algılarının belirleyicilerini, bu iki bilgi arasındaki etkileşim dikkate alarak incelemektir. çerçevede, Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TÜİK) tarafından yayımlanan 2017 yılı Gelir ve Yaşam Koşulları Araştırması (GYKA) mikro veri setinden yararlanılmıştır. setindeki, “hanenin toplam geliri gerekli harcamaları yapabil...

This article adopts a critical sociological perspective to examine the expectations surrounding the uses of social networking sites (SNSs) articulated in the domain of clinical literature. This emerging body of articles and commentaries responds to the recent significant growth in SNS use, and constitutes a venue in which the meanings of SNSs and their relation to health are negotiated. Our ana...

BACKGROUND Subjective health status is the result of an interaction between physiological and psychosocial factors in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, there is little understanding of multivariate explanations of subjective health status in COPD. The purpose of this study was to explore what determines subjective health status in COPD by evaluating the relati...