caa a22 4500 475739000 CHVBK 20180406123454.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005552814010 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005552814010 Socioeconomic Differences in Self-Assessed Health in a Chronically Ill Population: The Role of Different Health Aspects [Elektronische Daten] [J. Simon, H. van de Mheen, J. van der Meer, J. Mackenbach] We investigated the role that different health aspects play in the explanation of socioeconomic differences in self-assessed health. Socioeconomic differences in self-assessed health were investigated in relation to chronic disease, functional limitations, psychosomatic symptoms, and perceived discomfort/distress. In multiple logistic regression analyses, for three cutoff points of self-assessed health, significant socioeconomic differences in self-assessed health could be observed after adjusting for age and gender. After separate adjustment for each of the four health aspects, the analyses showed that for a health assessment as less-than-good and less-than-fair, psychosomatic symptoms were the most powerful explanatory factor. Perceived discomfort/distress proved to be the most powerful factor for a poor health assessment. We found that socioeconomic differences in self-assessed health could, to a large extent (72-80%), be explained through socioeconomic differences in the prevalence of the four types of health problems included in the study. For all cutoff points, objective health aspects accounted for a relatively small part of the socioeconomic variability in self-assessed health. More subjective aspects of health accounted for more of the variability. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 self-assessed health nationallicence socioeconomic differences nationallicence chronic disease nationallicence functional limitations nationallicence psychosomatic symptoms nationallicence perceived discomfort/distress nationallicence Simon J. Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut van de Mheen H. Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut van der Meer J. Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut Mackenbach J. Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut Journal of Behavioral Medicine Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 23/5(2000-10-01), 399-420 0160-7715 23:5<399 2000 23 10865 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005552814010 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005552814010 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Simon J. Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van de Mheen H. Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van der Meer J. Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mackenbach J. Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Behavioral Medicine Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 23/5(2000-10-01), 399-420 0160-7715 23:5<399 2000 23 10865 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer