Health Risk or Resource? Gradual and Independent Association between Self-Rated Health and Mortality Persists Over 30 Years
PLoS ONEPublished 9 February 2012Open access
Matthias Bopp, Julia Braun, Félix Gutzwiller, David Faeh, for the Swiss National Cohort Study Group
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The association between SRH and all-cause mortality remained strong and estimates almost linearly increased from “excellent” to “good”, which suggests that SRH provides relevant and sustained health information beyond classical risk factors or medical history and reflects salutogenetic rather than pathogenetic pathways.
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SRH is a strong and "dose-dependent" predictor of mortality. The association was largely independent from covariates and remained significant after decades. This suggests that SRH provides relevant and sustained health information beyond classical risk factors or medical history and reflects salutogenetic rather than pathogenetic pathways.
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