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Eva Martínez-Sánchez1, Enrique Regidor
1Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. evamaria.martinez@pfizer.com.
Abstract:
The objective of this study was to determine whether differences in self-rated health by educational level vary as a function of the presence or absence of health problems. For this purpose, 12,800 people were studied from the 1995 and 1997 Spanish national health surveys to estimate the percentage of less-than-good and less-than-fair health for each educational level. The association between self-rated health and educational level was stronger in persons without health problems than in those who had health problems. The probable explanation for these results is that persons with different educational levels have different conceptions about what constitutes health.
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