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Self reported health and mortality — ecological analysis based on electoral wards across the United Kingdom
Author(s)	Dermot O'Reilly, Michael Rosato, Chris Patterson
Journal title	British Medical Journal, vol 331, no 7522, 22 October 2005
Pages	pp 938-939
Source	http://www.bmj.com
Keywords	Ill health ; Death rate [statistics] ; Measurement ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Local.
Annotation	The authors derived three indicators of health for each of 10,604 UK electoral wards. Pooled all cause mortality rates for 2001/2 were generated for English, Scottish and Welsh wards; for Northern Ireland, data was pooled for 1998-2002. Two mortality indicators were derived from the self-report health questions in the 2001 Census: the proportion of ward respondents reporting limiting long-term illness, and the proportion reporting that their general health in the preceding year was "not good". Results obtained from this analysis suggest that self-reported health may be an unreliable way of comparing health needs between regions, and thus also raises concerns about using this indicator as a tool for resource allocation. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-051108202 A
Classmark	CH: S5: 3R: RH: 5CT *
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