Comparing three measures of health status (perceived health with Likert-type scale, EQ-5D, and number of chronic conditions) in Chinese and white Canadians

Medical Care

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 610-617

  Leung, Brenda ^a   Luo, Nan ^b   So, Lawrence ^a   Quan, Hude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Chinese; EQ 5D; Ethnicity; Health status; Likert type scale; MeSH heading

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CANADA; CAUCASIAN; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALBERTA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 34250785805     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3180331f58     Document Type: Article

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