The subjective health of older women: Measuring outcomes in relation to prevention

作者: Sonja M. Hunt

DOI: 10.1023/A:1008969721968

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摘要: Images of women as they age are strongly influenced by social, economic and historical forces. Questionnaires which purport to measure the subjective health older have been these images in terms their design content, concepts underlying item selection interpretation responses. There has a failure within both medicine outcome measurement distinguish between those experiences consequence biology stem from co-terminous events including cultural significance menopause moral normative constructs. It is evident that not all problems attributed actually caused it. With respect prevention more careful thoughtful targeting relevant issues needed, with attention being given values, hopes fears healthy age, together cross-cultural investigation phenomena, leading development testable models would guide questionnaire content.

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