Validity of the single-item question on self-rated health status in first generation Turkish and Moroccans versus native Dutch in the Netherlands

Public Health

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 543-550

  Agyemang, Charles ^a   Denktaş, Semiha ^a   Bruijnzeels, Marc ^a   Foets, Marleen ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Elderly; Ethnic minority groups; Self rated health; The Netherlands; Validity

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; ETHNIC MINORITY; HEALTH STATUS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; PREDICTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CLASS; TURKEY;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746884296     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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