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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on November 1, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwp367
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Letter to the Editor

RE: "ARE AMERICANS FEELING LESS HEALTHY? THE PUZZLE OF TRENDS IN SELF-RATED HEALTH"

Mauricio Avendano1,2, Tim Huijts3 and S. V. Subramanian4

1 Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA 02138
2 Department of Public Health, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam 3000 DR, the Netherlands
3 Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, 6500 HC Nijmegen, the Netherlands
4 Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115

(e-mail: mavendan@hsph.harvard.edu)

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Comparing aggregate levels of self-rated health in 4 national surveys conducted between 1971 and 2007 in the United States, Salomon et al. (1) conclude that self-rated health is unsuitable for monitoring changes in population health and health disparities over time. While the study raises important issues related to comparisons of self-rated health over . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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