Self-reported health and subsequent mortality: an analysis of 767 deaths from a large Thai cohort study

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Socio-demographic attributes by self-reported health in the Thai cohort study, 2005

Socio-demographic attributes	Self-reported health (SRH)*
	Good		Poor		Total
	n	%**	n	%	n
Sex
Males	37863	96.2	1497	3.8	39360
Females	45016	94.8	2489	5.2	47505
Birth year
-1959	5160	96.1	207	3.9	5367
1960-1969	17215	95.8	755	4.2	17970
1970-1974	14543	95.5	687	4.5	15230
1975-1979	20816	94.9	1125	5.1	21941
1980-	25135	95.4	1212	4.6	26347
Personal monthly income (Baht)***
<3000	8848	94.7	496	5.3	9344
3001-20000	63412	95.5	3019	4.5	66431
> = 20001	8561	95.9	367	4.1	8928
Total	82879	95.4	3986	4.6	86865

*SRH = self-reported health; six ordinal categories reduced to two ─ “good” and “poor”. “Good” included excellent, very good, good, and fair; “poor” included poor and very poor.
**Row percent.
***in 2009 35 Baht = US $1.

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