Sociodemographic and work-related determinants of self-rated health trajectories: a collaborative meta-analysis of cohort studies from Europe and the US.

ABSTRACT: Self-rated health is a major indicator of an individual's overall health status, but its development during midlife to old age, as well as influence of sociodemographic and work-related factors on it, are poorly understood. We used longitudinal individual-level data to examine trajectories of self-rated health and their determinants in 38,163 participants (median age 50 (range 36-66) years at baseline) of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, the Finnish Longitudinal Study on Aging Municipal Employees, and the French GAZ and ELectricité study from Europe and the Health and Retirement Study from the US. A group-based latent trajectory analysis showed that self-rated health was constantly good for over half of the participants, constantly suboptimal for about 11-21%, and it was changing,

SUBMITTER: Prakash KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11825677 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature