“…Studies examining the association between SRH and chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus (Badawi et al, 2012), chronic lung disease (Nguyen, Cuenco & Corrieri-Kohlman, 2008), high blood pressure (Carlsson, Andreasson & Wandell, 2011), arthritis (Uutela et al, 2016), depression (Ambresin et al, 2014) and cancer (Roelsgaard et al, 2016) are common (Mavaddat et al, 2014). There is an association between chronic conditions-such as cancer (Dimeo et al, 1997), diabetes mellitus (Astrom et al, 2018), and depressive symptoms (Gomes et al, 2013)-and physical functioning. Participants were asked if a doctor or nurse had told them they had any of the following: diabetes, chronic lung disease, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, arthritis, depression and cancer.…”