Self-rated health is a widely used and recognized measure of health status. There is some discussion, however, about a possible conceptual differentiation between positive and negative self-rated health: do their determinants refer to similar but mirrored\u00a0 patterns of association or are they different concepts?<\/p>\n
The study<\/a>, authored by Rainer Reile<\/a> and Mall Leinsalu<\/a>, was just published in the International Journal of Public Healt<\/a>h and uses data from over 4,500 people participating in the Estonian Health Interview Survey 2006. the results indicate that positive health assessment is determined by a broad set of demographic and socioeconomic measures, physical and psychological health and well-being characteristics. On the other hand, negative health is to a large extent related to physical and psychological health measures. In other words, negative self-rated health is conceptualized more narrowly, compared to the positive one: positive human health is more complex phenomenon than the mere opposite of ill health.<\/p>\n In conclusion, it seems that positive and negative assessments of one’s health are not mirror images of each other but rather two alternative concepts.<\/p>\n What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Self-rated health is a widely used and recognized measure of health status. There is some discussion, however, about a possible conceptual differentiation between positive and negative self-rated health: do their determinants refer to similar but mirrored\u00a0 patterns of association or are they different concepts? The study, authored by Rainer Reile and Mall Leinsalu, was just… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[529,732,783],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hot-off-the-press","category-international-journal-of-public-health","tag-mall-leinsalu","tag-rainer-reile","tag-self-rated-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}