title: What Does Self-rated Health Mean? Changes and Variations in the Association of Obesity with Objective and Subjective Components Of Self-rated Health.
abstract: There are concerns about the meaning of self-rated health (SRH) and the factors individuals consider. To illustrate how SRH is contextualized, we examine how the obesity-SRH association varies across age, periods, and cohorts. We decompose SRH into subjective and objective components and use a mechanism-based age-period-cohort model approach with four decades (1970s to 2000s) and five birth cohorts of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data (N = 26,184). Obese adults rate their health more negatively than non-obese when using overall SRH with little variation by age, period, or cohort. However, when we decomposed SRH into objective and subjective components, the obesity gap widened with increasing age in objective SRH but narrowed in subjective SRH. Additionally, the gap narrowed for more recently born cohorts for objective SRH but widened for subjective SRH. The results provide indirect evidence that the relationship between obesity and SRH is socially patterned according to exposure to information about obesity and the availability of resources to manage it.
authors.affiliation: University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA altmanc@health.missouri.edu.
authors.forename: Claire E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Altman
authors.affiliation: Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Van Hook
authors.affiliation: Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hillemeier
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000375:Aging; D059026:Diagnostic Self Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D009765:Obesity; D057566:Self Report
keywords: NHANES; adults; cohorts; obesity; periods; self-rated health
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