The English are healthier than the Americans: really?

Conclusions: It is possible to construct a metric of health, based on data directly collected from individuals, in which health is operationalized as domains of functioning. Its application has the potential to tackle one of the most intractable problems in international research on health, namely the comparability of health across countries.

Source: International Journal of Epidemiology - February 22, 2015 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Cieza, A., Oberhauser, C., Bickenbach, J., Jones, R. N., Ustun, T. B., Kostanjsek, N., Morris, J. N., Chatterji, S. Tags: Miscellaneous Source Type: research