General subjective health status or age-related subjective health status: Does it make a difference?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1373-1381

  Baron Epel, Orna ^a,b   Kaplan, Giora ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Age; Education; Elderly; Israel; Subjective health

Indexed keywords

HEALTH MONITORING; HEALTH STATUS; METHODOLOGY;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX; TELEPHONE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS INDEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF DISCLOSURE; SELF EFFICACY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0034847195     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00426-3     Document Type: Article

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