scholarly journals Comparing the Self-Rated Health Effects of Obesity on the Health of African Americans and Caribbean Blacks

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 383-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia F. Hastings
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Caribbean Blacks

Validity of Self-Rated Health Among African Americans

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irma Corral ◽  
Hope Landrine ◽  
Ivory Veley ◽  
Jonathan Martinez ◽  
Latrice C. Pichon
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Self Rated Health

Exploring the Effects of Spousal Race on the Self-rated Health of Intermarried Adults

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 604-618 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron Miller ◽  
Ben Lennox Kail
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Self Rated Health

scholarly journals Factors affecting the self-rated health of immigrant women married to native men and raising children in South Korea: a cross-sectional study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bookyoung Kim ◽  
Kyung-Bok Son
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
The Self ◽  
Chinese Han ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Medical Needs ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Korean Chinese

Abstract Background Since the influx of international immigrants to South Korea (Korea) in the 1980s, the number of immigrants married to native Koreans has increased substantially over the last 30 years. This study aims to provide recent evidence on the self-rated health of immigrant women married to native men and raising children. We evaluated the self-rated health of immigrant women sorted by their country of origin and elucidated factors that affect their self-rated health. Methods Data were obtained from the 2015 Korean National Multi-Cultural Family Survey. From the survey, a total of 6960 Korean-Chinese, Han-Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Filipino women were identified and a series of logistic regressions was conducted to elucidate factors that affected the self-rated health of immigrant women. Results The majority of immigrant women in Korea perceived that they are healthy. However, the self-rated health of immigrant women varied by country of origin. Korean-Chinese and Japanese immigrants are less likely to perceive that they are healthy compared with Filipino and Vietnamese immigrants. We identified several factors at the individual, household, and community levels and found that the majority of them are likely to be ethnic dependent. However, satisfaction with husband and experience of unmet medical needs presented consistent results in the five ethnicity groups. Conclusions Programs that strengthen spousal relationships and policies to enhance access to healthcare could be prioritized options to improve the self-rated health of immigrant women in Korea.

scholarly journals Empowerment and Collaborative Agency in Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 219
Author(s):  
Maher Ben Moussa
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Relation Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
Child Agency ◽  
The Family

This article examines the issue of child agency and empowerment in Mildred’s D. Taylor’s novel Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry. This theme is addressed by some critics who come to the conclusion that Taylor’s protagonist, the young girl Cassie Logan, develops agency and subversive subjectivity in the course of the novel. This study challenges such readings to argue that the ending of Taylor’s novel does not reflect empowerment; and consequently does not support such conclusions. Through expanding self-in-relation theory to feminism as an interpretive tool, this paper suggests that Cassie Logan’s subversive agency remains partial and incomplete because she fails to engage in an inter-connected and constructive relationship with the ‘other’. Cassie’s empowerment is partial because she fails to exert it in the larger community of African Americans and whites, that otherwise could have stimulated a greater impetus for activism. This study concludes that agency and subjectivity are constructed and empowered within the community which is larger than the self and the family.  

scholarly journals Racial Non-equivalence of Socioeconomic Status and Self-rated Health among African Americans and Whites

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 100561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caryn N. Bell ◽  
Tina K. Sacks ◽  
Courtney S. Thomas Tobin ◽  
Roland J. Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Self Rated Health

scholarly journals Comparison between different instruments for measuring health-related quality of life in a population sample, the WHO MONICA Project, Gothenburg, Sweden: an observational, cross-sectional study

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. e024454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Krantz ◽  
Ulla Wide ◽  
Penelope Trimpou ◽  
Inger Bryman ◽  
Kerstin Landin-Wilhelmsen
Keyword(s):  
Population Sample ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
The Self ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Sf 36 ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

ObjectiveThe general aim was to meet the need for empirical comparative studies of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) assessment instruments, by evaluating and comparing the psychometric properties and results of three different, widely used, generic HRQoL instruments in a population sample. The specific aims were to evaluate the subscales of the different instruments that measure the same domain and to assess the association between the HRQoL measures and a single-item self-rated health scale.DesignAn observational cross-sectional study.SettingA population-based sample from Gothenburg, Sweden, was studied in 2008 in the WHO MONItoring of trends and determinants for CArdiovascular disease.ParticipantsA total of 414 subjects were included, 77% women, age range 39–78 years.InterventionsThe Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), the Short Form-36 questionnaire (SF-36), the Psychological General Well-Being Index (PGWB) and a self-rated health scale were used.Outcome measuresScores were analysed for their psychometric properties, internal consistency (Cronbach’s α), construct validity (Spearman’s rank correlations and R2coefficients) and discriminative ability for the presence of self-rated ill-health.ResultsPGWB and SF-36 had higher Cronbach’s α scores than NHP. All correlations calculated between the subscales that were conceptually similar were significant (p<0.01). All subscales could differentiate the presence of self-rated ill-health according to the self-rated health scale (p<0.001). The self-rated health scale correlated strongly with all of the three HRQoL instruments used.ConclusionsThere was a high concordance between the instruments within each domain that was conceptually similar. All three HRQoL instruments (PGWB, SF-36 and NHP) could discriminate the presence of self-rated ill-health. The simple and quick self-rated health scale correlated strongly with the more time-consuming PGWB, SF-36 and NHP. The result supports the existence of a strong association between the self-rated health scale and HRQoL in the general population.

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