background : self-care plays a critical role in successful diabetes management. it is important for health professionals to understand the factors that influence the self-care behaviors of people with diabetes. the purpose of this study was to determine predictors of self-care and its effective factors among women's with type 2 diabetes mellitus in zahedan via health belief model. methods : thi...

INTRODUCTION Award schemes and self-evaluation systems have been developed to implement the 'Health-Promoting School (HPS)' concept in European and Asian countries. While there have been many successes in these regions, the implementation of HPS in African countries has been minimal. This study evaluated the impact of a self-evaluation system on school health in Niger. METHODS A school health...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to measure socioeconomic inequalities in Self Assessed Health (SAH) and evaluate the determinants of such inequalities in terms of their contributions amongst the Turkish population. METHODS We used data from the Turkish part of World Health Survey 2003 with 10,287 respondents over 18 years old. Concentration index (CI) of SAH was calculated as a measure of socio...

The question of what determines the dental needs of a population has been widely debated in the dental literature. Although there is no full agreement, the consensus is that substantial consideration should be given to the people's perceptions of what their needs are, based on self-assessment of their oral health and satisfaction with the appearance of their teeth. These perceptions (self-asses...

In the present study, the authors examine the extent to which effects of individual religious involvement on self-assessed health are influenced by the religious context (i.e., religious involvement at the country level). The authors test their expectations using individual level data (N = 127,257) on 28 countries from the European Social Surveys (2002-2008). Results of multilevel analyses show...

Self-assessed health (SAH) is often elicited in surveys in lieu of expensive health assessments made by medical professionals. Measures like this are quite often used in explaining decisions to undertake various activities, but their validity as an exogenous variable has been questioned. If the SAH is improperly treated as an exogenous variable this could bias other coefficients (e.g. price) th...

We examine the relationship between unemployment and self-assessed health using the European Community Household Panel for Finland over the period 1996-2001. Our results show that the event of becoming unemployed does not matter as such for self-assessed health. The health status of those that end up being unemployed is lower than that of the continually employed. Therefore, persons who have po...