The contribution of self-rated health and depressive symptoms to disability severity as a predictor of 10-year mortality in European elderly men

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2029-2034

  Van Den Brink, Carolien L ^a,b   Tijhuis, Marja ^a   Van Den Bos, Geertrudis A M ^b   Giampaoli, Simona ^c   Nissinen, Aulikki ^d   Kromhout, Daan ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; EUROPE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EUROPE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK;

EID: 27644530143     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.050914     Document Type: Article

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