Self-rated health (SRH) has been collected for many years on National Center for Health Statistics surveys and since 1993
on the state-based BRFSS. SRH is an independent predictor of important health outcomes including mortality, morbidity, and
functional status. It is considered to be a reliable indicator of a person's perceived health and is a good global assessment
of a person's well being.
Percentage of Adults Aged 18 and Older Who Reported Fair or Poor General Health by Race, Utah, 2009-2011
Data Notes
Age-adjusted to the 200 U.S. standard population. The 2009-2011 BRFSS data in this graph include both landline and cell
phone respondent interviews along with a new weighting methodology called iterative proportional fitting, or raking. This
methodology utilizes additional demographic information (such as education, race, and marital status) in the weighting procedure.
Both of these methodology changes were implemented to account for an increased number of U.S. households without landline
phones and an under-representation of certain demographic groups that were not well-represented in the sample. This graph
is based on the new methodology. More details about these changes can be found at: http://health.utah.gov/opha/publications/brfss/Raking/Raking%20impact%202011.pdf.
Data Sources
Utah Data: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Office of Public Health Assessment, Utah Department of Health.
Percentage of adults aged 18 years and older who reported fair or poor general health.
How We Calculated the Rates
Numerator:
Number of survey respondents who reported fair or poor general health.
Denominator:
Total number of survey respondents except those with missing, "Don't know/Not sure," and "Refused" responses.
Page Content Updated On 04/13/2013,
Published on 04/16/2013
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Office of Public Health Assessment, Center for Health Data, Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-2101, Telephone:
801-538-9259, Website: http://health.utah.gov/opha/OPHA_BRFSS.htm, Email: jwratha@utah.gov
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