What is self-rated health and why does it predict mortality? Towards a unified conceptual model

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 307-316

  Jylhä, Marja ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biology; Cognition; Interoception; Mortality; Review; Self assessment; Self rated health; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HEALTH STATUS; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; SELF ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOM;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; INFLAMMATION; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT; WELLBEING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COGNITION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF-ASSESSMENT;

EID: 67650717949     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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