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Titre :	Do age and social relations moderate the relationship between self-rated health and mortality among adult Danes ? (2003)
Auteurs :	Marie HELWEG-LARSEN ; Mette KJOLLER ; Henrik THONING ; National Institute of Public Health. DNK
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Social science and medicine (vol. 57, n° 7, 2003)
Pagination :	1237-1247
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Adulte ; Homme ; Age ; Mortalité ; Epidémiologie ; Relation sociale
Résumé :	[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 93i93R0x. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. It is well established that self-rated health (SRH) predicts mortality even after controlling for a wide range of factors. We explored the extent to which age and social relations (structural and functional) influenced the relationship between SRH and mortality (after 13 years follow-up) in a representative sample of adult Danes (N=6693). After controlling for socioeconomic status, illness, and lifestyle variables, we found that age moderated the SRH-mortality relationship such that it was present for respondents under 55 but absent for respondents over 56. In addition, weaker structural (but not functional) social relations increased mortality directly but neither structural nor functional social relations moderated the SRH-mortality relationship. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.

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