The english are healthier than the Americans: Really?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 229-238

  Cieza, Alarcos ^a,b,c   Oberhauser, Cornelia ^b   Bickenbach, Jerome ^c,d   Jones, Richard N ^e   Üstün, Tevfik Bedirhan ^f   Kostanjsek, Nenad ^f   Morris, John N ^g   Chatterji, Somnath ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE   (Switzerland)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^g Social Welfare Policy and Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural comparison; Functioning; Health; Health metric; Health state; Rasch model

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; RETIREMENT;

ADULT; AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTION; ENGLISHMAN; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RASCH ANALYSIS; RECALL; SLEEP; VISION; WEIGHT LIFTING; AGE; AGED; AGING; CHRONIC DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHRONIC DISEASE; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SKILLS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924536118     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyu182     Document Type: Article

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