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GSA 2025 Abstract

The Long Arc of Self-Rated Health Research

By Ellen L. Idler, Ted Johnson
ReviewPopulations
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Abstract

Research with older populations that asks respondents to assess their health with a single question began with the Duke Longitudinal Studies of Normal Aging in the 1950s.

The paper

Ellen L. Idler, Ted Johnson

GSA 2025 Abstract, 31 Dec 2025, CC BY

Presented at GSA 2025

doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaf122.081

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