To study self-rated and physician-rated health, to analyse concordance of the two methods and to examine factors explaining differences between self-rated and physician-rated health.
Population-based cross-sectional study.
Finnish cohorts of the Seven Countries Study.
470 men aged 70-89 years.
Self-administered questionnaire and clinical examination.
General health status estimated by doctors correlated weakly with self-rated health. The strongest determinants of self-rated health were depression (P