The association between self-rated health status and increasing age among older Japanese living in a rural community over a 6-year period: A longitudinal data analysis

Gerontology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 344-352

  Ishizaki, Tatsuro ^a,b   Yoshida, Hideyo ^a,b   Suzuki, Takao ^a,b   Shibata, Hiroshi ^c  

^a Longitudinal Interdisciplinary Study on Aging ^*

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c J F OBERLIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Longitudinal study; Self rated health status

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INTERVIEW; JAPANESE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 67249097408     PISSN: 0304324X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000183749     Document Type: Article

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