Semantics bias in cross-national comparative analyses: Is it good or bad to have "fair" health?

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Schnohr, Christina W ^a   Gobina, Inese ^b   Santos, Teresa ^c   Mazur, Joanna ^d   Alikasifuglu, Mujgan ^e   Välimaa, Raili ^f   Corell, Maria ^g   Hagquist, Curt ^h   Dalmasso, Paola ⁱ   Movseyan, Yeva ^j   Cavallo, Franco ⁱ   van Dorsselaer, Saskia ^k   Torsheim, Torbjørn ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b RIGA STRADINS UNIVERSITY   (Latvia)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOTHER AND CHILD   (Poland)

^e ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^g SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^h KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^j Institute of Child and Adolescent Health   (Armenia)

^k Kristie Bergiesgatan ^*  (Netherlands)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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Author keywords

Health Behavior in School aged Children (HBSC); International comparison; Measurement variance; Self rated health; Translation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BONE; BULGARIA; CHILD; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LATVIA; MOLDOVA; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIST; SEMANTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL BIAS;

ADOLESCENT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATIONS;

EID: 84977662303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12955-016-0469-8     Document Type: Article

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