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Maintaining Self-Rated Health Through Social Comparison in Old Age

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  • Sheung-Tak Cheng
  • Helene Fung
  • Alfred Chan

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  • Sheung-Tak Cheng & Helene Fung & Alfred Chan, 2007. "Maintaining Self-Rated Health Through Social Comparison in Old Age," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 62(5), pages 277-285.
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    2. Jylhä, Marja, 2009. "What is self-rated health and why does it predict mortality? Towards a unified conceptual model," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 69(3), pages 307-316, August.
    3. Lazarevič, Patrick & Brandt, Martina, 2020. "Diverging ideas of health? Comparing the basis of health ratings across gender, age, and country," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 267(C).
    4. Laure Sabatier & Spencer Moore, 2015. "Do Our Friends and Relatives Help Us Better Assess Our Health? Examining the Role of Social Networks in the Correspondence Between Self-Rated Health and Having Metabolic Syndrome," SAGE Open, , vol. 5(3), pages 21582440156, September.
    5. Muhammad Helmi Barghouth & Elke Schaeffner & Natalie Ebert & Tim Bothe & Alice Schneider & Nina Mielke, 2023. "Polypharmacy and the Change of Self-Rated Health in Community-Dwelling Older Adults," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(5), pages 1-16, February.
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    7. Andreas Ihle & Daniela S. Jopp & Michel Oris & Delphine Fagot & Matthias Kliegel, 2016. "Investigating Discontinuity of Age Relations in Cognitive Functioning, General Health Status, Activity Participation, and Life Satisfaction between Young-Old and Old-Old Age," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-15, November.

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