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Title: | Gender, ethnicity, health behaviour & self-rated health in Singapore | Authors: | Lim, W.-Y Ma, S Heng, D Bhalla, V Chew, S.K |
Keywords: | adult aged alcohol consumption article body mass education ethnicity exercise female general aspects of disease health behavior household human income interview major clinical study male marriage risk factor self concept self report sex difference Singapore smoking socioeconomics adolescent attitude to health comparative study demography health status health survey middle aged questionnaire sex difference Singapore statistical model Adolescent Adult Aged Attitude to Health Female Health Behavior Health Status Health Status Indicators Humans Logistic Models Male Middle Aged Population Surveillance Questionnaires Residence Characteristics Self Concept Sex Factors Singapore Socioeconomic Factors |
Issue Date: | 2007 | Citation: | Lim, W.-Y, Ma, S, Heng, D, Bhalla, V, Chew, S.K (2007). Gender, ethnicity, health behaviour & self-rated health in Singapore. BMC Public Health 7 : 184. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-184 | Rights: | Attribution 4.0 International | Abstract: | Background. Self-rated health and the factors that influence it have never been described in Singapore before. This paper presents a descriptive study of self-rated health in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of 6236 persons. Methods. As part of the National Health Surveillance Survey 2001, 6236 subjects aged 18 years and above were interviewed in the homes of participants by trained interviewers. The subjects were asked "In general, how would you rate your health today?", and given 5 possible responses. These were then categorized as "Good" (very good and good) and "Poor" (moderate, bad and very bad) self-rated health. The association of socio-economic and health behaviour risk factors with good self-rated health was studied using univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis. Results. Univariate analyses suggest that gender, ethnicity, marital status, education, household income, age, self-reported doctor-diagnosed illnesses, alcohol intake, exercise and BMI are all associated with poor self-rated health. In multivariate regression analyses, gender, ethnicity, household income, age, self-reported illness and current smoking and BMI were associated with poor self-rated health. There are gender differences in the association of various factors such as household income, smoking and BMI to self-rated health. Conclusion. Socioeconomic factors and health behaviours are significantly associated with self-rated health, and gender differences are striking. We discuss why these factors may impact self-rated health and why gender differences may have been observed, propose directions for further research and comment on the public policy implications of our findings. © 2007 Lim et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. | Source Title: | BMC Public Health | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/177991 | ISSN: | 14712458 | DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2458-7-184 | Rights: | Attribution 4.0 International |
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