The value of comparing health outcomes in cohort studies: An example of self-rated health in seven studies including 79 653 participants

Australasian Journal on Ageing

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 194-200

  Anstey, Kaarin J ^a   Butterworth, Peter ^a   Windsor, Tim D ^a   Burns, Richard ^a   Sargent Cox, Kerry ^a   Von Sanden, Chwee ^a   Christensen, Helen ^a   Booth, Heather ^a   Simons, Leon A ^b   Byles, Julie E ^c   Gibson, Richard ^c   Luszcz, Mary A ^d   Shaw, Jonathan E ^e   Broe, Gerald A ^f   Browning, Colette ^g   Mitchell, Paul ^h   Cumming, Robert G ⁱ   Kendig, Hal ^h  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^g MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Education; Epidemiology; Health status indicators; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 36549013711     PISSN: 14406381     EISSN: 17416612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2007.00261.x     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Vision Problems in Older Australians. Canberra, ACT: AIHW, 2003.
2. Ware JE, Kosinski M, Keller SD. SF-36 Physical and Mental Health Summary Scales: A User's Manual. Boston, MA : Health Assessment Laboratory, 1994.
3. DeSalvo KB, Bloser N, Reynolds K, He J, Muntner P. Mortality prediction with a single general self-rated health question. A meta-analysis. Journal of General Internal Medicine 2006 21 : 267 275.
4. Anstey KJ, von Sanden C, Sargent-Cox K, Luszcz MA. Prevalence and risk factors for depression in a longitudinal, population-based study including individuals in the community and residential care. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2007 15 : 497 505.
5. Anstey KJ, Windsor TD, Luszcz MA, Andrews GR. Predicting driving cessation over 5 years in older adults: Psychological well-being and cognitive competence are stronger predictors than physical health. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2006 54 : 121 126.
6. Jorm AF, Windsor TD, Dear KBG, Anstey KJ, Christensen H, Rodgers B. Age group differences in psychological distress: The role of psychosocial risk factors that vary with age. Psychological Medicine 2005 35 : 1253 1263.
7. Emmelin M, Weinehall L, Stegmayr B, Dahlgren L, Stenlund H, Wall S. Self-rated ill-health strengthens the effect of biomedical risk factors predicting stroke, especially for men - An incident case referent study. Journal of Hypertension 2003 21 : 887 896.
8. Idler EL, Russell LB, Davis D. Survival, functional limitations, and self-rated health in the NHANES I epidemiologic follow-up study, 1992. First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. American Journal of Epidemiology 2000 152 : 874 883.
9. Roos NP, Roos LL, Mossey J, Havens B. Using administrative data to predict important health outcomes. Entry to hospital, nursing home, and death. Medical Care 1988 26 : 221 239.
10. Blaum CS, Liang J, Liu X. The relationship of chronic diseases and health status to the health service utilisation of older Americans. Journal of American Geriatric Society 1994 42 : 1087 1093.
11. Segovia J, Bartlett RF, Edwards AC. An empirical analysis of the dimensions of health status measures. Social Science and Medicine 1989 29 : 761 768.
12. Murata C, Kondo T, Tamakoshi K, Yatsuya H, Toyoshima H. Determinants of self-rated health. Could health status explain the association between self-rated health and mortality? Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics 2006 43 : 369 380.
13. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). Longitudinal studies of ageing. Canberra, ACT : AIHW, 2004. Cat. N. Age, 42.
14. Andrews G, Cheok S, Carr S. The Australian longitudinal study of ageing. Australasian Journal on Ageing 1989 8 : 31 35.
15. Dunstan DZP, Welborn T, Cameron A et al. The Australian diabetes, obesity and lifestyle study (AusDiab) methods and response rates. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 2002 57 : 119 129.
16. Wooden M, Freidin S, Watson N. The household, income and labour dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey: wave 1. Australian Economic Review 2002 35 : 339 348.
17. Brown WJBL, Byles JE, Dobson AJ, Manderson L, Schofield M, Williams G. Women's health Australia: Establishment of the Australian longitudinal study on women's health. Journal of Women's Health 1996 5 : 467 472.
18. Henderson AS, Jorm AF, Mackinnon A et al. The prevalence of depressive disorders and the distribution of depressive symptoms in later life: A survey using draft ICD-1- and DSM-III-R. Psychological Medicine 1993 23 : 719 729.
19. Jorm AF, Anstey KJ, Christensen H, Rodgers B. Gender differences in cognitive abilities: The mediating role of health state and health habits. Intelligence 2004 32 : 7 23.
20. Simons LA, Simons J, Powell I, Ruys J, Heller R, Lerba C. The Dubbo study: An Australian prospective community study of the health of elderly. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Medicine 1990, 783 789.
21. Broe GA, Creasey H, Jorm AF et al. Health habits and risk of cognitive impairment and dementia in old age: A prospective study on the effects of exercise, smoking and alcohol consumption. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 1998 22 : 621 623.
22. Mitchell P, Smith W, Attebo K, Wang JJ. Prevalence of age-related maculopathy in Australia. The Blue Mountains Eye Study. Ophthalmology 1995 102 : 1450 1460.
23. Kendig H, Helme R, Teshuva K, Osborne D, Flicker L, Browning C. Health Status of Older People Project: Preliminary Findings of A Survey of the Health and Lifestyles of Older Australians. Melbourne, Vic Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, 1996.