Self-Rated Health in Health Surveys

Handbook of Health Survey Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 193-216

  Lee, Sunghee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive psychology; Global self rated health (SRH); Health information; Health outcomes; Health surveys; Measurement errors; Public health literature; Survey methodology literature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940832026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118594629.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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