Self-reported health in high and very high incomes.

The objective of the present study was to investigate whether self-reported health (SRH), an overall health indicator, continues to improve as individual income increases to very high levels or whether there is a threshold above which this relationship changes direction. We used data from the 2003 US Current Population Survey, focusing on the upper income decile. We modelled the relationship between income and SRH before and after adjustment for other socio-demographic parameters that are known to influence SRH.

Measuring health inequalities in Albania: a focus on the distribution of general practitioners.

Background: The health workforce has a dynamically changing nature and the regular documentation of the distribution of health professionals is a persistent policy concern. The aim of the present study was to examine available human medical resources in primary care and identify possible inequalities regarding the distribution of general practitioners in Albania between 2000 and 2004.

Methods: With census data, we investigated the degree of inequality by calculating relative inequality indices.

Inequalities in the distribution of rural primary care physicians in two remote neighboring prefectures of Greece and Albania.

Introduction: Inequalities in the distribution of primary care physicians are of great importance in the provision of health care. This becomes more apparent mainly in the rural and remote areas of each country. The objective of the present study was to evaluate and compare the degree of inequality in the provision of primary care physicians in two rural and remote prefectures of neighboring countries.

Multivariate models of self-reported health often neglected essential candidate determinants and methodological issues.

Background And Objective: Self-reported health is an important indicator of overall well-being that may be influenced by diverse parameters. We intended to evaluate the variety of candidate determinants used in models of self-reported health (SRH) and to examine the methodological problems encountered in multivariate models used in recent studies in this field.

Study Design And Setting: Medline searches identified articles published in 2002 in which SRH was included as an outcome, at least one other variable was used as a determinant of SRH, and the study population was not defined by the presence of specific diseases.