Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES-I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study.
E L Idler and
R J Angel
Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.
The ability of self-rated health status to predict mortalitywas tested with data from the National Health and NutritionExamination Survey (NHANES-I) Epidemiologic Follow-Up Study(NHEFS), conducted from 1971-84. The sample consists of adultNHANES-I respondents ages 25-74 years (N = 6,440) for whom datafrom a comprehensive physical examination at the initial interviewand survival status at follow-up are available. Self-rated healthconsists of the response to the single item, "Would you sayyour health in general is excellent, very good, good, fair,or poor?" Proportional hazards analyses indicated that, netof its association with medical diagnoses given in the physicalexamination, demographic factors, and health related behaviors,self-rated health at Time 1 is associated with mortality overthe 12-year follow-up period among middle-aged males, but notamong elderly males or females of any age.
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