Differences in the misreporting of chronic conditions, by level of education: the effect on inequalities in prevalence rates. | Zendy

Johan P. Mackenbach | Zendy; C. W. N. Looman | Zendy; Jan B. van der Meer | Zendy

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Differences in the misreporting of chronic conditions, by level of education: the effect on inequalities in prevalence rates.

Author(s) -

Johan P. Mackenbach,

C. W. N. Looman,

Jan B. van der Meer

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.86.5.706

Subject(s) - medicine , socioeconomic status , chronic disease , inequality , disease , prevalence , demography , diabetes mellitus , epidemiology , environmental health , gerontology , family medicine , population , pathology , mathematics , sociology , endocrinology , mathematical analysis

Many studies of socio-economic inequalities in the prevalence of chronic conditions rely on self-reports. For chronic nonspecific lung disease, heart disease, and diabetes mellitus, we studied the effects of misreporting on variations in prevalence rates by respondents' level of education.

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