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Self-rated health and mortality among black and white adults
— examining the dynamic evaluation thesis | | Author(s) | Kenneth F Ferraro, Jessica A Kelley-Moore |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 56B, no 4, July 2001 |
| Pages | pp S195-S205 |
| Keywords | Black people ; White people ; Health [elderly] ; Death ; Comparison ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Many studies of self-rated health show it to be a reliable predictor of mortality, even when controlling for health-related variables and status characteristics. This study examines the prognostic value of self-ratings of health on mortality with data from 20 years of the US National Health and National Examination Survey - I, Epidemiologic Follow-up Study (N = 6,833). Special attention is given to differences between White and Black Americans. Results indicate that event history models of mortality, with self-rated health treated as a time dependent covariate, are superior to those treating it as a baseline predictor only: the latter are likely to underestimate the effect. Moreover, self-ratings of health predict mortality for African Americans only when treated as a time-dependent covariate. Results suggest that the self-ratings of health are sensitive to decline in physical health. The importance of using dynamic models for studying the link between self-rated health and mortality is also demonstrated. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010814207 A |
| Classmark | TKE: TKA: CC: CW: 48: 3J: 7T |
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