American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on November 1, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwp369
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THE FIRST AUTHOR REPLIES
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115
(e-mail: jsalomon@hsph.harvard.edu)
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We thank Avendano et al. (1) for their interest in our paper (2) and for their comments. In their letter, they raise 3 main points that we would like to address.
The first concerns the magnitude of cross-sectional differences in self-rated health levels across surveys. Avendano et al. (1) observe absolute differences of between 3 and