Self-assessed health and mortality: Could psychosocial factors explain the association?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1162-1168

  Mackenbach, Johan P ^a   Simon, Jeanette G ^a   Looman, Caspar W N ^a   Joung, Inez M A ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Mortality; Psychosocial; Self assessed health

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; MORTALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERVIEW; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; NEUROSIS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PERSONALITY; POSTAL MAIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036996546     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/31.6.1162     Document Type: Article

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