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Self-Rated Health And Community/Social Relations, Rachel Kingsford
Self-Rated Health And Community/Social Relations, Rachel Kingsford
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
This study was done to examine the relationship between self-rated health and social/community relations. Due to advances in modern medicine, multifactorial diseases are more prevalent than acute infectious diseases and a greater understanding of the impact sociological variables has on health is of great importance. In prior research, self-rated health has been demonstrated to be a robust predictor of mortality, even when controlling for other variables known to impact health. Presence of a strong social network and attachments to community have been shown to be protective of self-perceptions of health.
The Health and Living study was conducted in the Bear …