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Self-rated health, gender and mortality in older persons
Author(s)	Dorly J H Deeg, Peter A Bath, Ellen L Idler
Journal title	The Gerontologist, vol 43, no 3, June 2003
Pages	pp 369-411
Keywords	Older men ; Older women ; Health [elderly] ; Life expectancy tables ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America ; Melton Mowbray.
Annotation	Following an introduction to this special section, five articles consider the theme of differences between older men and women with regard to the relationships between self-rated health and mortality or survival. The final article in this section is a study from the ongoing Melton Mowbray Ageing Project in Leicestershire. Data from three successive cohorts aged 75-81 registered with the local general practitioner were surveyed in 1981, 1988, and 1993-95. While the women surveyed in 1993-95 were more likely than men to report problems that were disabling but not life-threatening, men were more likely to report potentially life-threatening problems. However, these differences did not explain the association of self-rated health with mortality. More than half of those who report a potentially life-threatening problem said that their health was good. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-030723207 A
Classmark	BC: BD: CC: S7: 3KB: 7T: 8LEC
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