Background People who rate their health as poor experience higher all-cause mortality.
Study of disease-specific association with self-rated health might increase understanding of …

Abstract Self-rated health (SRH)—for example,“in general would you say your health is
excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor?”—is the most widely used measure of health across …

Recent work in medical sociology has provided critical insights into distinguishing between
obesity as a condition with severe individual-and population-level health consequences …

Despite many recent technical breakthroughs in health care, human behaviour remains the
largest source of variance in health-related outcomes (Schroeder, 2007). People's health …

This paper combines multiple cross-sections of data drawn from the National Population
Health Survey and Canadian Community Health Survey to confirm the existence of the …

A growing number of sociologists, political scientists, development economists, and
organizational theorists have invoked the concept of social capital in their search for …

Objectives. Although self-rated health (SRH) is recognized as a strong and consistent
predictor of mortality and functional health decline, there are relatively few studies …

Background: Survey research including multiple health indicators requires brief indices for
use in cross-cultural studies, which have, however, rarely been tested in terms of their …

The influence of age and gender composition on group performance and self-reported
health disorders was examined with data from 4,538 federal tax employees working in 222 …

This article investigates the relationship among objectively assessed neighborhood socio-
economic status (SES), subjective perceptions of neighborhood environment, individual …