ABSTRACT
In preventive medicine one of the main topics is the analysis of the relationships between lifestyle parameters and health. These analyses are mostly limited to objective health parameters. More recently, there has been a tendency towards using subjective health parameters like experienced health or quality of life as outcome variables in epidemiological studies[1, 2]. In the Amsterdam Growth and Health Study (AGHS), longitudinal data are available not only on lifestyle parameters and objective health parameters, but also on experienced health. The purpose of this study was firstly to analyse the relationships between lifestyle parameters and experienced health. Because it is questionable whether experienced health is related to objective health, the second purpose of this study was to analyse the relationships between experienced health and objective health parameters.
