Re: "Are Americans feeling less healthy? The puzzle of trends in self-rated health".
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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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- American journal of epidemiology
دوره 170 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009