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| The relationship between well-being and self-rated health among middle-aged and older women in Israel | | Author(s) | Esther Iecovich, Julie Cwikel |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 33, no 4, 2010 |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2010 |
| Pages | pp 255-269 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Well being ; Health [elderly] ; Correlation ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Self-rated health (SRH) is widely used to assess global health. This study evaluated the SRH of two groups of women aged 40 to 59 and 60+ years. In a sample (n = 306), from a random telephone survey, variables reflecting sociodemographic status, subjective well-being, and health were examined to explain SRH. The results showed that the two groups differed significantly on measures of subjective well-being, as well as in number of comorbidities and level of disability. Two hierarchical regression analyses showed that whereas the sociodemographic characteristics - in particular education, immigrant status, and economic difficulties - explained 24% in the variance in SRH in the middle-aged group, in the older group only economic difficulties was significantly connected with SRH and explained only 8%. Comorbidity was much more salient in the middle-aged group than in the older group, whereas disability was more dominant in the older than in the middle-aged group. This suggests that SRH reflects psychosocial as well as medical and functional aspects of health. (KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-101122210 A |
| Classmark | BD: D:F:5HH: CC: 49: 7H6 |
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