TY - JOUR AU - Bostan, Cristina AU - Oberhauser, Cornelia AU - Stucki, Gerold AU - Bickenbach, Jerome AU - Cieza, Alarcos PY - 2015 DA - 2015/05/27 TI - Which environmental factors are associated with lived health when controlling for biological health? - a multilevel analysis JO - BMC Public Health SP - 508 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - Lived health and biological health are two different perspectives of health introduced by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Since in the concept of lived health the impact of the environment on biological health is inherently included, it seems intuitive that when identifying the environmental determinants of health, lived health is the appropriate outcome. The Multilevel Item Response Theory (MLIRT) model has proven to be a successful method when dealing with the relation between a latent variable and observed variables. The objective of this study was to identify environmental factors associated with lived health when controlling for biological health by using the MLIRT framework. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1834-y DO - 10.1186/s12889-015-1834-y ID - Bostan2015 ER -