Self-reported general health, physical distress, mental distress, and activity limitation by US county, 1995-2012
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Population
4,698,203 respondents from the US Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System surveys from 1995 to 2012.
Design
Cross-sectional
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Implication
Highlights worsening geographic disparities in self-reported health that correlate with chronic disease burden; leaves open whether targeted.
Structured PICO
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Population
4,698,203 respondents from the US Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) surveys from 1995 to 2012.
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Outcome
County-level prevalence of low general health, frequent physical distress, frequent mental distress, and frequent activity limitationpatient reported
Self-reported health metrics reveal substantial and increasing geographic disparities in population health across US counties that correlate strongly with chronic disease prevalence and life expectancy.
Limitations
- Survey response rates to the BRFSS are low
- item non-response is not at random
- differences in how respondents understand and respond to the healthy days questions
Cite This Study
Dwyer‐Lindgren et al. (2017) studied this question.
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