Comparability of self rated health: Cross sectional multi-country survey using anchoring vignettes

British Medical Journal

Volumn 328, Issue 7434, 2004, Pages 258-261

  Salomon, Joshua A ^a   Tandon, Ajay ^b   Murray, Christopher J L ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPREHENSION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MOBILIZATION; MYANMAR; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SRI LANKA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PILOT PROJECTS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0842265446     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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