TY - JOUR AU - Garbarski, Dana AU - Dykema, Jennifer AU - Croes, Kenneth D. AU - Edwards, Dorothy F. PY - 2017 DA - 2017/10/04 TI - How participants report their health status: cognitive interviews of self-rated health across race/ethnicity, gender, age, and educational attainment JO - BMC Public Health SP - 771 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Self-rated health (SRH) is widely used to measure subjective health. Yet it is unclear what underlies health ratings, with implications for understanding the validity of SRH overall and across sociodemographic characteristics. We analyze participants’ explanations of how they formulated their SRH answer in addition to which health factors they considered and examine group differences in these processes. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4761-2 DO - 10.1186/s12889-017-4761-2 ID - Garbarski2017 ER -