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Ellen L. Idler
Researcher at Emory University
Publications - 80
Citations - 18937
Ellen L. Idler is an academic researcher from Emory University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Self-rated health. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 78 publications receiving 17978 citations. Previous affiliations of Ellen L. Idler include University of California, Berkeley & Rutgers University.
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Self-rated health and mortality : a review of twenty-seven community studies
Ellen L. Idler,Yael Benyamini +1 more
TL;DR: This work examines the growing number of studies of survey respondents' global self-ratings of health as predictors of mortality in longitudinal studies of representative community samples and suggests several approaches to the next stage of research in this field.
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Health perceptions and survival: do global evaluations of health status really predict mortality?
Ellen L. Idler,Stanislav V. Kasl +1 more
TL;DR: Self-evaluations of health status have been shown to predict mortality, above and beyond the contribution to prediction made by indices based on the presence of health problems, physical disability, and biological or life-style risk factors.
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Self-Ratings of Health: Do they also Predict change in Functional Ability?
Ellen L. Idler,Stanislav V. Kasl +1 more
TL;DR: Results show that self-ratings of health in 1982, net of baseline functional ability, health and sociodemographic status, are associated with changes in functional ability over periods of one through six years, and the choice of an index of overall impact of morbidity is chosen.
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Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES-I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study.
Ellen L. Idler,Ronald J. Angel +1 more
TL;DR: Proportional hazards analyses indicated that, net of its association with medical diagnoses given in the physical examination, demographic factors, and health related behaviors, self-rated health at Time 1 is associated with mortality over the 12-year follow-up period among middle-aged males, but not among elderly males or females of any age.
Community Studies Reporting Association Between Self-Rated Health and Mortality
Yael Benyamini,Ellen L. Idler +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that poor self-ratings of health were associated with higher risk of mortality, and that self-reported health was associated with lower risk of death. But, in just two of the 19 studies there were no effects of self-rated health for either men or women.