Research in and Prospects for the Measurement of Health Using Self-Rated Health

Garbarski, Dana

doi:10.1093/poq/nfw033

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“…Previous meta-analysis and review studies demonstrate a strong association between self-rated health and mortality (Ahmad et al 2014; Garbarski 2016; Idler and Benjamini 1997). Self-rated health has been found to be a reliable measurement of general health since respondents rated the same general health assessment within a period during which their health was unlikely to change.…”

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What’s Your “Street Race”? Leveraging Multidimensional Measures of Race and Intersectionality for Examining Physical and Mental Health Status among Latinxs

López

Vargas

Juárez

et al. 2017

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Using the 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey (N= 1,197) we examine the relationship between physical and mental health status and three multidimensional measures of race: 1) “street race,” or how you believe other “Americans” perceive your race at the level of the street; 2) socially assigned race or what we call “ascribed race,” which refers to how you believe others usually classify your race in the U.S.; and 3) “self-perceived race,” or how you usually self-classify your race on questionnaires. We engage in intersectional inquiry by combining street race and gender. We find that only self-perceived race correlates with physical health and that street race is associated with mental health. We also find that men reporting their street race as Latinx1 or Arab were associated with higher odds of reporting worse mental health outcomes. One surprising finding was that, for physical health, men reporting their street race as Latinx were associated with higher odds of reporting optimal physical health. Among women, those reporting their street race as Mexican were associated with lower odds of reporting optimal physical health when compared to all other women; for mental health status, however, we found no differences among women. We argue that “street race” is a promising multidimensional measure of race for exploring inequality among Latinxs.

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What’s Your “Street Race”? Leveraging Multidimensional Measures of Race and Intersectionality for Examining Physical and Mental Health Status among Latinxs

López

Vargas

Juárez

et al. 2017

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

143

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“…Self-rated health (SRH) is one of the most widely used subjective measures of health status among older adults [3,4]. It was found to independently predict mortality, even after controlling for objective health measures [5].…”

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Social Capital and Self-Rated Health among Older Adults Living in Urban China: A Mediation Model

Lü

Zhang

2019

Sustainability

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Social capital and healthy aging are both crucial for social sustainability in China. The present study tested the role of structural social capital in self-rated health among older urban Chinese adults and the influence of cognitive social capital on this relationship. A sample of 456 older adults aged 60 or older in Suzhou, China, were recruited and completed the survey in 2015. Structural equation modeling was used to test the proposed model. Cognitive social capital had larger effects on self-rated health than structural social capital. The relationship between structural social capital and self-rated health was fully mediated by cognitive social capital, when sociodemographic characteristics, socioeconomic status, physical health conditions, and living arrangements were controlled. The culturally sensitive latent construct of community-based social capital proved to be a valid instrument in urban Chinese contexts. Structural social capital likely indirectly affects self-rated health through cognitive social capital. Policy and intervention implications are discussed.

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“…A sensitivity analysis using the five-point self-rated health scale is reported in Table S4 in the Supplementary materials. Respondents have been found to take into account a wide range of health factors, including both aspects of physical as well as mental health, in forming an assessment of their own health (see Garbarski, 2016 for a research synthesis). Moreover, it has been shown that self-rated health is a valid and reliable measure of overall health and is predictive of mortality even after adjusting for specific health measures and other covariates (e.g.…”

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The effect of an early-career involuntary job loss on later life health in Europe

Voßemer

Gebel

Nizalova

et al. 2018

Advances in Life Course Research

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Recent years have witnessed an increase in interest towards the long-term health consequences of early-career job loss and youth unemployment. Relying on detailed retrospective data from the third wave (2008/09) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) this paper investigates whether an involuntary job loss in the first 10 years after labour market entry has lasting negative effects on health more than 30 years later. The results show that an early-career involuntary job loss due to a layoff or plant closure increases the probability of fair or poor self-rated health in late life by about 6 percentage points. Moreover, examining the mechanisms behind this relationship, the analysis reveals that the subsequent unemployment risks and employment instability only explain a small share of the total effect. In line with previous studies, these findings highlight the importance of early career experiences for workers' later life health.

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Research in and Prospects for the Measurement of Health Using Self-Rated Health

Cited by 75 publications

References 90 publications

What’s Your “Street Race”? Leveraging Multidimensional Measures of Race and Intersectionality for Examining Physical and Mental Health Status among Latinxs

What’s Your “Street Race”? Leveraging Multidimensional Measures of Race and Intersectionality for Examining Physical and Mental Health Status among Latinxs

Social Capital and Self-Rated Health among Older Adults Living in Urban China: A Mediation Model

The effect of an early-career involuntary job loss on later life health in Europe

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