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Changes in these perceptions coincide with changes in other health measures, suggesting that even though they are overall quite stable, they also capture the dynamic nature of health. Though this seems somewhat paradoxical, the most intriguing finding is that self-rated health predicts mortality and future morbidity: It has an independent contribution to the prediction of future health, even after controlling for a variety of other known predictors of mortality. This finding has inspired extensive research aimed at understanding the nature of self-ratings of health and the reasons for their validity. In this talk, I will review the literature on the nature of self-rated health and its predictive power, the existing explanations for this power and the state-of-the-art evidence for these explanations. Finally, I will discuss the limitations to the validity of self-rated health and the conclusions regarding it uses and misuses in research and practice in gerontology.
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
06/23/2011 17:30 - 06/23/2011 19:00
Event venue:
Die Veranstaltung findet im DZA statt:
Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (DZA)
Großer Sitzungsraum, 3. Obergeschoss
Manfred-von-Richthofen-Straße 2
Öffentlicher Nahverkehr: U-Bahnlinie U6, Haltestelle "Platz der Luftbrücke" (Flughafen Tempelhof), Buslinien 104 und 248.
12101 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Medicine, Psychology, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
05/31/2011
Sender/author:
Stefanie Hartmann
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event35624
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