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DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-857886
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Subjektive Gesundheit als Prädiktor für Mortalität
Self-rated Health as Predictor for Mortality Die für die Untersuchung verwendeten Daten des Lebenserwartungssurveys wurden uns vom Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung zur Verfügung gestellt.Publication History
Publication Date:
03 March 2005 (online)
Zusammenfassung
Subjektive Gesundheit gewann während der letzten zwei Dekaden besonderes Interesse in der internationalen Forschung, da sie sich als konsistenter Prädiktor für die Mortalität zeigte. Für die Bestätigung eines langfristigen und von objektiven Gesundheitsindikatoren unabhängigen Effektes subjektiver Gesundheit auf die Mortalität anhand eines Follow-up-Vergleichs liegt in Deutschland noch keine Studie vor. Mit den Daten des Lebenserwartungssurveys des Bundesinstituts für Bevölkerungsforschung steht ein Mortalitäts-Follow-up für den Zeitraum 1984/86 - 1998 zur Verfügung, das nachfolgend genutzt wird, um den Zusammenhang zwischen subjektiver Gesundheit und Mortalität in Abhängigkeit von der Beobachtungsdauer zu analysieren. Die stärkere Prädiktion schlechter subjektiver Gesundheit in einem kurzfristigen gegenüber einem langfristigen Beobachtungsmodell lässt auf einen stärkeren Zusammenhang zu objektiven Gesundheitsindikatoren schließen. Die Signifikanz des Zusammenhangs im langfristigen Follow-up, welches die früh verstorbenen Risikopersonen nicht berücksichtigt und für weitere gesundheitsrelevante Kovariaten kontrolliert, zeigt aber, dass die subjektive Gesundheit einen über den aktuellen objektiven Gesundheitszustand hinausgehenden Einfluss auf Mortalität hat.
Abstract
In the last two decades self-rated health has received growing interest in international studies because of its consistent prediction for mortality. However, for Germany there are no studies confirming a long-term effect independent from objective health indicators in comparison of different follow-up. On the basis of the Life-Expectancy-Study (1984/86 - 1998) from the Federal Institute for Population Research it was possible to analyze the association between subjective health and mortality in relation to the length of observation. A stronger correlation between bad self-rated health and objective health status could be indicated because of a better prediction for mortality in a short-term follow-up. The evidence of a significant effect between self-rated health and mortality in the long-term follow-up not including the deaths from the short-term follow-up indicates that the mechanisms between subjective health and mortality are more complex than those between objective health status and death.
Schlüsselwörter
Subjektive Gesundheit - Mortalität - Lebenserwartungssurvey
Key words
Self-rated health - mortality - Life-Expectancy-Survey
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Stephan Müters
Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Fachbereich Gesundheitssoziologie
Ernst-Reuter-Platz
10587 Berlin
Email: mueters@ifg.tu-berlin.de