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Article: Factors associated with self-rated health status in university students: a cross-sectional study in three European countries.(Research article)(Survey)
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- BMC Public Health
- Article date:
- June 18, 2008
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Authors: Rafael T Mikolajczyk [1]; Patrick Brzoska [2]; Claudia Maier [2]; Veronika Ottova [3]; Sabine Meier [1]; Urszula Dudziak [4]; Snezhana Ilieva [5]; Walid El Ansari (corresponding author) [6]
Background
Asking for a self-rating of health is a legitimate technique for assessing the health of individuals [1]. While self-rating of health is a good measure of objective and subjective health [2], it is also a feasible way to measure health in large-scale surveys [3, 4]. Self-rating of health has been shown to have high reliability, validity and predictive power for a variety of illnesses and conditions [5]. Self-rated health has been extensively ...
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