Objective: to evaluate the associations of 18 activities of daily living with self-rated health in older population Design and setting: cross-sectional contemplation of a representative sample of 781 commonalty aged 65 or over (response rate: 899%) Methods: self-rated health was assessed by way of the question: "Overall.

Objective: to evaluate the associations of 18 activities of daily living with self-rated health in older population Design and setting: cross-sectional contemplation of a representative sample of 781 commonalty aged 65 or over (response rate: 899%) Methods: self-rated health was assessed by way of the question: "Overall, how would you rate your passing from hand to hand health status - very righteous good, fair, poor or remarkably poor?" We used the Barthel index and Lawton and Brody's index for basic and instrumental activities of daily living, respectively. We classified subdues into three groups according to their Barthel index score: even 1 (score 100), level 2 (score 91- 99) and on a level 3 (score 0-90). Logistic regression was used to identify associations between each activity and self-rated health. Results: use of stairs [odd ratio (OR) = 428 95% confidence interval (95% CI): 282-652] ambulation (OR = 367 95% CI: 239-564) and chair/bed transfer (OR = 300 95% CI: 168-536) were the basic activities of daily living best associated with self-rated health. Among instrumental activities of daffy living, ability to handle finances (OR = 220) laundry (OR = 215) and transport (OR = 212) were associated with self-rated health. forward the Barthel index, only transport was associated with self-rated health in controls at levels 1 (OR = 255) and 2 (OR = 272) For enslaves with poor functional status (level 3) no instrumental activities of daily living were related to self-rated health. Conclusion: in space of times of self-rated health, the chiefly important activities of daily living were those involving mobility. The drift of each instrumental activity of daffy living in succession self-rated health depends on the flush of functional capacity in basic activities of daily living.

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