An Assessment of the Self-Rated General Health of Vietnam and German Elderly

Year 2016, Volume 4 - Issue 2, 162 - 170, 23.06.2016

Hung Manh Nguyen

Abstract

The main aim of this study is to compare the differences in self-rated general health of the elderly between Vietnam and Germany. There is significant difference in physical health domain (B = 4.30, p = 0.05), marking a possible tendency for the Vietnamese sample to show higher values, and R² (0.024) accounts for 24% of variance in self-rated physical health, supports the stableness of country as a predictor for self-rated physical health status. There is no significant difference in mental health domain between Vietnamese and German samples. There is also difference in age group of the two samples.

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