Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10472480 | Social Science & Medicine | 2005 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
The findings indicate that SH in Jews and Arabs does not necessarily have the same meaning in relation to objective measures of health, and caution should be exercised in the use of this measure in different population groups with different cultures. Arabs tend to evaluate health better than Jews even though life expectancy is lower and morbidity and mortality are higher in the former population group. Yet diagnosis of a disease increases the frequency of reporting lower SH, more in Arabs than in Jews.
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Authors
Orna Baron-Epel, Giora Kaplan, Amalia Haviv-Messika, Jalal Tarabeia, Manfred S. Green, Dorit Nitzan Kaluski,