Use of anchoring vignettes to evaluate health reporting behavior amongst adults aged 50 years and above in Africa and Asia - testing assumptions

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hirve, Siddhivinayak ^a,b   Gómez Olivé, Xavier ^c   Oti, Samuel ^d   Debpuur, Cornelius ^e   Juvekar, Sanjay ^a   Tollman, Stephen ^c   Blomstedt, Yulia ^b   Wall, Stig ^b   Ng, Nawi ^b  

^a KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^e NAVRONGO HEALTH RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Anchoring vignettes; Cognition; Mobility; Reporting heterogeneity; Response consistency; Self rating; Vignette equivalence

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AGED; ASIA; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; ANCHORING VIGNETTES; ARTICLE; COGNITION; MOBILITY; REPORTING HETEROGENEITY; RESPONSE CONSISTENCY; SELF-RATING; VIGNETTE EQUIVALENCE;

AFRICA; AGED; ASIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

ANCHORING VIGNETTES; COGNITION; MOBILITY; REPORTING HETEROGENEITY; RESPONSE CONSISTENCY; SELF-RATING; VIGNETTE EQUIVALENCE;

EID: 84886258314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.21064     Document Type: Article

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