Abstract
A health survey of a secondary school population in New Zealand enabled comparison between health as determined by an examining doctor and as assessed by the subject. Subjective appraisal identified respiratory symptoms, joint dysfunction and neuropsychiatric disorders as contributing to poorer health. Examiner-determined ill-health was commoner in the lowest socioeconomic strata but showed no relation to sex or ethnicity. Among students without examiner-determined ill-health, lower socioeconomic status was associated with lower self-appraisal of health. Among students having any examiner-determined abnormality, an ethnic difference emerged, but this was attributable mainly to the higher prevalence of respiratory symptoms in Maori subjects.
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