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 …

Existing estimates of sociodemographic disparities in chronic pain in the United States are
based on cross-sectional data, often treat pain as a binary construct, and rarely test for …

The origins of generalized trust remain unclear despite its importance to social, political, and
economic functioning. Social capital theory and previous cross-sectional research suggest …

Life satisfaction surveys are increasingly being used as a measure of welfare (Stiglitz et al.,
2009), and even proposed as a primary measure (Layard, 2005). On average worldwide …

This study leverages multiple measures of gender from a US national online survey (N=
1,508) to better assess how gender is related to self-rated health. In contrast to research …

Abstract The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993 provided a well‐
studied framework for US federal performance management initiatives. In the aftermath of …

Background This study aims to better understand differing pain experiences across US
racial/ethnic subgroups by estimating racial-ethnic disparities in both pain intensity and …

The health consequences of marital dissolution are well known, but little work has examined
the impact of health on the risk of marital dissolution. We use a sample of 2,701 marriages …

Aims: The aims of this study were to:(1) examine the concurrent validity of self-rated health
for mental and physical health in Europe; and (2) evaluate whether self-rated health predicts …

Research indicates that women have higher levels of physical disability and depression and
lower scores on physical performance tests compared to men, while the evidence for gender …