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Self rated health trends

This project compared the longitudinal trajectories of three commonly used self-reported measures of health:

• global
• age-comparative
• self-comparative self-rated health (SRH).

The figure represents prototypical predicted global trajectories of the three SRH measures for a 78 year old female over a 12 year period.

For older females global SRH is likely to become poorer over time, age-comparative SRH remains relatively stable and self-comparative SRH improves over time.