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See Latest ArticlesAre Americans Feeling Less Healthy? The Puzzle of Trends in Self-rated Health
American Journal of Epidemiology, 06/30/09
Salomon JA et al. - Whereas data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System demonstrate that Americans were increasingly likely to report "fair" or "poor" health over the last decade, those from the Current Population Survey indicate the opposite trend. Subgroup analyses revealed that the greatest inconsistencies were among young respondents, Hispanics, and those without a high school education. Trends in "fair" or "poor" ratings were more inconsistent than trends in "excellent" ratings. The observed discrepancies elude simple explanations but suggest that self-rated health may be unsuitable for monitoring changes in population health over time. Analyses of socioeconomic disparities that use self-rated health may be particularly vulnerable to comparability problems, as inconsistencies are most pronounced among the lowest education group. More work is urgently needed on robust and comparable approaches to tracking population health.
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