The value of general health perception in health equity research: A community-based cohort study of long-term mortality risk (Finnmark cohort study 1987–2017)

Background: General health perception as measured by self-rated health (SRH) is an individual's synthesis of personal overall health and has value in its own right. In addition, this subjective perspective has a unique predictive power of subsequent mortality and adds valuable information not c...

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Main Authors: Knut Fylkesnes, Monika Dybdahl Jakobsen, Nils Oddbjørn Henriksen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-09-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827321001233