Alternative measures of self-rated health for predicting mortality among older people: Is past or future orientation more important?

Gerontologist

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 836-844

  Ferraro, Kenneth F ^a,b   Wilkinson, Lindsay R ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Self assessed health; Survival; Time orientation

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84943429796     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: 17585341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnt098     Document Type: Article

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