Abstract
In a random sample of the indigenous rural population of the Republic Sakha (Yakutia) the relationship of subjective health assessment with the real state of health and social-economic status has been investigated. Of the 438 respondents aged 20 years and older 92 (21%) of persons characterized their health as “good”, 32 (7%) – as “bad”. The study revealed the presence of the age and gender differences in self-appraisal of health. In the older age groups the proportion of evaluating health as “good” (p <0,001) decreased. The women assessed their health as “good” not so often as men (17 and 26%, respectively, p<0,001). Respondents, who estimated their health as «poor», had more adverse metabolic profile (p<0,05). The presence of risk factors and chronic diseases were more frequently associated with «bad» health assessment (p<0,01). In this research the statistically significant association between self-appraisal of health and social-economic status of respondents was not established.
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