A commentary on Marja Jylhä's "What is self-rated health and why does it predict mortality? Towards a unified conceptual model"(69:3, 2009, 307-316)

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 652-654

  Huisman, Martijn ^a,b   Deeg, Dorly J H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognition; Self assessment; Self rated health; Validity

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MODELING; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELF ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION;

EID: 75849149949     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.11.003     Document Type: Note

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