Gender, ethnicity, health behaviour & self-rated health in Singapore
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Gender, ethnicity, health behaviour & self-rated health in Singapore
BACKGROUND Self-rated health and the factors that influence it have never been described in Singapore before. This paper presents a descriptive study of self-rated health in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of 6236 persons. METHODS As part of the National Health Surveillance Survey 2001, 6236 subjects aged 18 years and above were interviewed in the homes of participants by t...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-184