What determines Self-Rated Health (SRH)? A cross-sectional study of SF-36 health domains in the EPIC-Norfolk cohort

Mavaddat, Nahal; Kinmonth, Ann Louise; Sanderson, Simon; Surtees, Paul G.; Bingham, Sheila; Khaw, Kay Tee

doi:10.1136/jech.2009.090845

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“…This type of single item self-report general health question has been used previously to examine the effects of greenspace (Maas et al, 2006;Mitchell and Popham, 2007) and is strongly correlated with objective measures of health status such as mortality (Kyffin et al, 2004). Further, people self-reporting good health on this single item tend to have substantially higher scores on all physical, mental and social health domains of the SF-36 health survey (Mavaddat et al, 2011). To account for geographical variation in population age/sex structure, we calculated directly standardised rates of good health as the outcome measure.…”

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Does living by the coast improve health and wellbeing?

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It is often assumed that spending time by the coast leads to better health and wellbeing, but there is strikingly little evidence regarding specific effects or mechanisms to support such a view. We analysed small-area census data for the population of England, which indicate that good health is more prevalent the closer one lives to the coast. We also found that, consistent with similar analyses of greenspace accessibility, the positive effects of coastal proximity may be greater amongst more socio-economically deprived communities. We hypothesise that these effects may be due to opportunities for stress reduction and increased physical activity.

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Does living by the coast improve health and wellbeing?

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“…If maintained over time, i.e., during the later stages of the foreclosure process, this can lead to chronic stress, which increases risk of disease or functional disability, as reflected by poorer self-reported health. 28,29,35 However, it is important to note that these findings must be interpreted cautiously because it is a convenience sample and there are small effect sizes, so further research is needed to verify these suggestive patterns. We also observed a higher likelihood of poor self-reported health among individuals who were evicted without dation in payment and those with dation in payment, although this difference was not statistically significant.…”

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“…We created a dichotomous outcome variable, with the responses "fair" or "poor" coded as "poor self-reported health". 28,29 These two variables were asked in the same way in PAH and Catalonian surveys.…”

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Foreclosure and Health in Southern Europe: Results from the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages

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Housing instability has been shown to be related to poorer health outcomes in various studies, mainly in the USA and UK. Affected individuals are more prone to psychiatric (e.g., major depression, anxiety) and physical disorders (e.g., hypertension). This situation has deteriorated with the onset of the economic crisis. One of the most affected countries is Spain, which has high rates of foreclosure and eviction that continue to rise. In response, a civil movement, The Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH), works to provide solutions to its members affected by foreclosure and advocates for the right to decent housing. The aims of this study ware to describe and compare the health status of PAH members from Catalonia to a sample of the general population and to analyze the association between health status and mortgage status, foreclosure stage, and other socioeconomic variables, among members of the PAH. We conducted a cross-sectional study using a self-administered online questionnaire (2014) administered to 905 PAH members in Catalonia (918 years; 559 women and 346 men). Results were compared with health indicators from The Health Survey of Catalonia 2013 (n = 4830). The dependent variables were poor mental health (GHQ 12 ≥ 3), and poor self-reported health (fair or poor). All analyses were stratified by sex. We computed age-standardized prevalence and prevalence ratios of poor mental and self-reported health in both samples. We also analyzed health outcomes among PAH members according to mortgage status (mortgage holders or guarantors), stage of foreclosure, and other socioeconomic variables by computing prevalence ratios from robust Poisson regression models. The prevalence of poor mental health among PAH members was 90.6 % in women and 84.4 % in men, and 15.5 and 10.2 % in the general population, respectively. The prevalence of poor self-reported health was 55.6 % in women and 39.4 % in men from the PAH, and 19.2 and 16.1 % in the general population, respectively. These health inequalities were independent of socioeconomic status. The prevalence of poor mental health was higher among individuals in the non-payment stage of foreclosure than among those who were up to date with their payments (e.g., PR c = 1.16 [95 % CI 1.04-1.28]). In contrast, selfreported poor health was more prominent in later stages of foreclosure, such as in posteviction without dation in payment stage in men (PR c = 2.24 [95 %CI = 1.35-3.72]). We observed a considerably higher prevalence of poor mental and self-reported health among male and female PAH members than in the general population. Public policies that tackle housing instability and its consequences are urgently needed in Spain.

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“…Although, self-reported health assessments are principally assessments of the respondent's physical functioning they are also influenced by negative affective states but to a much lesser 15 degree (Mavaddat et al, 2011). A binary variable was created which was one for those reporting their general health as 'excellent' or 'good' and zero otherwise.…”

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How financial strain affects health: Evidence from the Dutch National Bank Household Survey

Prentice

McKillop

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2017

Social Science & Medicine

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The mechanisms by which financial strain affects health are not well understood. In this paper, we conduct a longitudinal mediation analysis of the Dutch National Bank 5Household Survey. To quantify the relative importance of biological and nonbiological pathways from financial strain to health, we consider smoking, heavy drinking and being overweight as plausible behavioural responses to financial strain but find that only 4.9% of the response of self-reported health to financial strain is mediated by these behaviours. Further analysis indicates that although financial strain increases 10 impulsivity this has little effect on unhealthy behaviours. Economic stresses therefore appear to be distinct from other forms of stress in the relatively minor influence of nonbiological pathways to ill-health.

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What determines Self-Rated Health (SRH)? A cross-sectional study of SF-36 health domains in the EPIC-Norfolk cohort

Cited by 171 publications

References 44 publications

Does living by the coast improve health and wellbeing?

Does living by the coast improve health and wellbeing?

Foreclosure and Health in Southern Europe: Results from the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages

How financial strain affects health: Evidence from the Dutch National Bank Household Survey

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