Publications by authors named "Jordi Guma-Lao"
Background: Self-rated health, a subjective health outcome that summarizes an individual's health conditions in one indicator, is widely used in population health studies. However, despite its demonstrated ability as a predictor of mortality, we still do not full understand the relative importance of the specific health conditions that lead respondents to answer the way they do when asked to rate their overall health. Here, education, because of its ability to identify different social strata, can be an important factor in this self-rating process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Influence of Economic Factors on the Relationship between Partnership Status and Health: A Gender Approach to the Spanish Case.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
March 2022
This study explores the relevance of economic factors (e.g., a household's economic capacity and the prevailing economic context) to understand the relationship between the partnership status and the health of Spanish adult women and men (age 30-59).
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