BACKGROUND Self-rated health status (SRHS) is a reliable and valid measure for assessing the subjective and objective health of individuals. Previous studies have either focused predominantly on the elderly or investigated only a narrow range of factors potentially associated with SRHS. In examining student populations, these past studies were limited to single countries. The objectives of this...

Self-rated health status (SRHS) is one of the most frequently used health measures in empirical health economics. This article analyzes the first seven waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and finds that (1) all available lags have decreasing but significant predictive power for current SRHS and (2) SRHS and future mortality are strongly related which leads to a specific selection pro...

OBJECTIVE To assess self-reported health status (SRHS) in two cohorts of participants with radiographic knee osteoarthritis (OA) and examine the extent that differences in SRHS are due to study design. METHOD We used data from the Third National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES-III; population-based national survey) and the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI; prospective cohort s...

OBJECTIVE Chile, a South American country recently defined as a high-income nation, carried out a major healthcare system reform from 2005 onwards that aimed at reducing socioeconomic inequality in health. This study aimed to estimate income-related inequality in self-reported health status (SRHS) in 2000 and 2013, before and after the reform, for the entire adult Chilean population. METHODS ...

This study addresses questions concerning psychosocial processes of relative comparison in the production of socio-economic inequalities in health. Specifically, the importance for health of perceptions of status, different 'reference groups' and 'reference points' in such comparisons is problematized and investigated empirically. Using data from a cross-sectional telephone survey of the Canadi...

BACKGROUND Availability and accessibility of sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents are very crucial for prevention and control of sexual and reproductive health problems. These services also play vital roles in the promotion of adolescents' sexual and reproductive health generally. The main purpose of the study was to determine the availability and accessibility (geographical ...

Objectives: This study investigated restrictions in functional capacity, self-rated health status (SRHS), and psychosocial characteristics of employed cancer survivors in Japan and examined differences in these characteristics between cancer survivors and employees without cancer history. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was carried out. Subjects were local government employees in Japan in 201...

Because self-reported health status [SRHS] is an ordered response variable, inequality measurement for SRHS data requires a numerical scale for converting individual responses into a summary statistic. The choice of scale is however problematic, since small variations in the numerical scale may reverse the ordering of a given pair of distributions of SRHS data in relation to conventional inequa...

The paper presents the evaluation of a knowledge-based scoring method applied to the problem of identifying the best speech recognition hypothesis (SRH) in a functioning multimodal dialogue system. The competing SRHs are evaluated in terms of their semantic coherence using the high-level domain knowledge encoded in the ontology. We conducted an annotation experiment and showed that humans can r...

Abstract Background Sexual and Reproductive health Services (SRHS) are essential for the prevention control of SRH problems among young people achievement sustainable development goal 3. These services may be available but certain factors interfere with their access utilization by people. This study sought to determine that predict SRHS in Enugu State, Nigeria. Methods The adopted mixed-method ...