Jenkinson, Crispin; Fitzpatrick, Ray; Argyle, Michael - In: Social Science & Medicine 27 (1988) 12, pp. 1411-1414
A recent criticism of the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) claimed it was an insensitive instrument for use in population surveys, because its modal response was zero, and domains measured by the instrument are insufficiently distinct. It is argued here that the NHP was designed specifically to...