The gap between self-reported and objective measures of disease status in India.

ABSTRACT: Researchers interested in the effect of health on various life outcomes (such as employment, earnings and life satisfaction) often use self-reported health and disease status as an indicator of true, underlying health status. Self-reports appear to be reasonable measures of overall health. For example, self-assessed overall health has been found to be a reliable predictor of mortality. However, the validity of self-reports is questionable when investigating specific diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. A small and nascent body of research comparing self-reported status on certain diseases with the true status based on clinical diagnoses has found significant gaps. These validation exercises predominantly use data from high-income countries. In this paper, we use survey data from Ind

SUBMITTER: Onur I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6110485 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature