Mortality rates and self reported health: database analysis by English local authority area
Mortality rates are commonly used as summary measures of current health status when comparing different populations. Their use in this way is often criticised, however, because mortality rates, though readily available and objective, are such an extreme measure of ill health. Surveys of self reporte...
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BMJ Publishing Group
2004
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