Open AccessSelf-assessed health and mortality: could psychosocial factors explain the association?
Author(s) -
Johan P. Mackenbach,
Jeanette G Simon,
Caspar W.N. Looman,
Inez M.A. Joung
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/31.6.1162
Subject(s) - psychosocial , neuroticism , medicine , self rated health , demography , stressor , coping (psychology) , confounding , population , personality , social support , locus of control , cohort , cohort study , relative risk , gerontology , psychology , clinical psychology , environmental health , psychiatry , confidence interval , developmental psychology , social psychology , pathology , sociology
The single-item question of self-assessed health has consistently been reported to be associated with mortality, even after controlling for a wide range of health measurements and known risk factors for mortality. It has been suggested that this association is due to psychosocial factors which are both related to self-assessed health and to mortality. We tested this hypothesis.
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