The impact of self‐rated health on medical care utilization for older people with depressive symptoms

To test the hypothesis whether self‐rated health alone can explain the relationship between depression and medical care utilization for the older people and to determine whether the explanatory power of self‐rated health is greater than that of the explanatory power of a major disease and activities of daily living.

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