RE: "ARE AMERICANS FEELING LESS HEALTHY? THE PUZZLE OF TRENDS IN SELF-RATED HEALTH" | Zendy

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RE: "ARE AMERICANS FEELING LESS HEALTHY? THE PUZZLE OF TRENDS IN SELF-RATED HEALTH"

Author(s) -

Mauricio Avendaño,

Tim Huijts,

S. V. Subramanian

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

american journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.33

H-Index - 256

eISSN - 1476-6256

pISSN - 0002-9262

DOI - 10.1093/aje/kwp367

Subject(s) - feeling , medicine , gerontology , psychology , demography , social psychology , sociology

Comparing aggregate levels of self-rated health in 4 national surveys conducted between 1971 and 2007 in theUnited States, Salomon et al. (1) conclude that self-rated health is unsuitable for monitoring changes in population health and health disparities over time. While the study raises important issues related to comparisons of self-rated health over time,we do not see their study as evidence against the use of self-rated health in population health research, for the following reasons. First, Salomon et al. (1) conclude that self-rated health levels were very different in the 4 surveys examined. Close

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