Open AccessIs Self-Rated Health Comparable Between Non-Hispanic Whites and Hispanics? Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study
Author(s) -
Dejun Su,
Ming Wen,
Kyriakos S. Markides
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology series b
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1758-5368
pISSN - 1079-5014
DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbt037
Subject(s) - self rated health , medicine , health and retirement study , demography , gerontology , non hispanic whites , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , longitudinal study , logistic regression , health equity , comparability , cardiovascular health , ethnic group , public health , mexican americans , confidence interval , disease , mathematics , combinatorics , anthropology , surgery , sociology , nursing , pathology
Using subsequent all-cause mortality as a yardstick for retrospective health, this study assessed the comparability of self-rated health (SRH) between non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics.
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