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Review

Socio-demographic Indicators Based on EQ-5D

Agota Szende  1 , Bas Janssen  2   3
Agota Szende  1 , Bas Janssen  2 , Juan Cabases  3
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In: Self-Reported Population Health: An International Perspective based on EQ-5D [Internet]. Dordrecht (NL): Springer; 2014. Chapter 5.
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Socio-demographic Indicators Based on EQ-5D

Agota Szende et al.
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This chapter specifically addresses the distribution of health within the population and the degree to which age, gender, education level and country are responsible for inequalities in self-reported health. Usual activities and pain/discomfort were the highest contributors to overall inequalities in self-assessed health in most countries. Education had a consistent role in explaining a lower level of self-reported health. The level of inequalities in self-assessed health and the health inequality profile by EQ-5D dimension differed substantially across countries, deserving the attention of policy makers within each country.

Future population surveys using EQ-5D-3L or EQ-5D-5L may be integrated into the EuroQol archive of population survey datasets as they become available. Researchers planning to conduct new population surveys using EQ-5D should contact the EuroQol Group Executive Office (userinformationservice@euroqol.org).

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