What does self rated health measure? Results from the British Whitehall II and French Gazel cohort studies

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 364-372

  Singh Manoux, Archana ^a,b   Martikainen, Pekka ^b,c   Ferrie, Jane ^b   Zins, Marie ^a   Marmot, Michael ^b   Goldberg, Marcel ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATUS; SELF ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33645210476     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.039883     Document Type: Article

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