Highlights

  • Self-rated health is commonly employed in research studies that seek to assess the health status of older individuals

  • Data from the United States and Korean surveys were available as public use datasets, which were obtained through registration with the relevant organizations (The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research and the Korea Labor Institute respectively)

  • The Australian sample was older, more likely to be female, and less likely to be partnered than the other samples and education levels were higher in Western than Asian countries

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Summary

Introduction

Self-rated health is commonly employed in research studies that seek to assess the health status of older individuals. Self-rated health (SRH) is used worldwide to assess health status with a single self-report item [1] It is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be an important indicator of population health and healthy life expectancy, due to the finding that self-rated health predicts major health outcomes including health care medical diagnoses, symptoms and functional limitations), making a comparison with some other reference group, and deciding which of the available response options (typically excellent, very good, good, fair or poor) is the best match for their evaluation. National and cultural differences in self-reports of health A number of studies have compared SRH between countries or cultural groups. Such studies have investigated whether apparent differences in SRH can be attributed to individual differences in objective health and social indicators, or remain when these have been taken into account, termed the ‘residual regression’ approach [4]. Such a methodology may place too large a burden on respondents and is not feasible for population-based studies or when using existing datasets [6]

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