Manderbacka, Kristiina; Kåreholt, Ingemar; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 56 (2003) 7, pp. 1447-1452
This study examines the effect of point of reference on the predictive validity of self-rated health for mortality in a 5-year follow-up period. Two self-rated health measures are examined: an age group comparative question and a global question with no explicit point of reference. The baseline...