The association of self-rated health with mortality is well established but poorly understood.
This paper provides new insights into self-rated health that help integrate information from …

OBJECTIVE: Health planners and policy makers are increasingly asking for a feasible
method to identify vulnerable persons with the greatest health needs. We conducted a …

This study describes the developmentandinitial psychometricevaluation of the 25-item
Resilience Scale (RS) in a sample of 810 community-dwelling older adults. Principal …

Background Self-rated health (SRH), a subjective assessment of health status, is extensively
used in the public health field. However, whether SRH can reflect the objective health status …

Economists have devoted increasing attention to the magnitude and consequences of
measurement error in their data. Most discussions of measurement error are based on the …

This chapter provides an overview of the literature linking health, health insurance and labor
market outcomes such as wages, earnings, employment, hours, occupational choice, job …

Labor supply estimates are sensitive to the measures of health used. When self reported
measures are used health seems to playa larger role and economic factors a smaller one …

Because of women's higher risk of being widowed, having health problems, and needing
care, one might expect them to have a more negative self-concept and lower subjective well …

This study evaluates the utility of a stress and co** paradigm for explanining individual
differences in psychological adjustment to chronic illness. Using data from the first wave of a …

The test-retest reliability of self-rated health is analysed and compared with the reliability of
health questions phrased more as well as less precisely. Differences in reliability between …