Self-Rated Health and Mortality: A Review of Twenty-Seven Community Studies

Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-37

  Idler, Ellen L ^a   Benyamini, Yael ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031085303     PISSN: 00221465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2955359     Document Type: Review

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