Open AccessAssessment of factors affecting self-rated health among elderly people in Southwest Nigeria
Author(s) -
Adedoyin Ogunyemi,
F.A. Olatona,
KA Odeyemi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
nigerian postgraduate medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 19
ISSN - 1117-1936
DOI - 10.4103/npmj.npmj_14_18
Subject(s) - logistic regression , social support , confidence interval , medicine , gerontology , odds ratio , test (biology) , descriptive statistics , demography , elderly people , self rated health , statistical significance , psychology , social psychology , statistics , paleontology , mathematics , pathology , sociology , biology
Self-rated health (SRH) is a subjective measure of health considered valid to predict mortality among the elderly. With the rapid increase of older people living in Nigeria and the lack of adequate social security, it is important to identify factors affecting their SRH. Social support has also taken on added importance among the elderly in view of scarce resources.