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Gender differences in positive and negative self-assessments of health status in a national epidemiological study of Israeli aged
Author(s)	Edward Prager, Adrian Walter-Ginzburg, Tsvia Blumstein
Journal title	Journal of Women & Aging, vol 11, no 4, 1999
Pages	pp 21-41
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Health [elderly] ; Attitude ; Older men ; Older women ; Over 70s ; Social surveys ; Israel.
Annotation	The literature on subjective health appraisals frequently notes that older women, more so than men, generally experience a lower quality of life in all major indicators (physical health status, functional ability, perceived income adequacy, social contacts, psychological distress, and cognitive ability). This epidemiological study of 1,352 older people in Israel aged between 75-94 was undertaken in order to obtain reliable estimates of "poor" and "excellent/good" self assessments of health in a national sample of older people; to identify the most significant correlates of "poor" and "excellent/good" assessments; and to ascertain whether different models of subjective health were different for older men and women. The findings point to the fact that the simple health evaluation question is not a unitary construct, but rather a complex attitudinal measure. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-000419402 A
Classmark	CC: DP: BC: BD: BBK: 3F: 7H6
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