Franco Cavallo1, Paola Dalmasso2, Veronika Ottová-Jordan3, Fiona Brooks4, Joanna Mazur5, Raili Välimaa6, Inese Gobina7, Margarida Gaspar de Matos8, Ulrike Raven-Sieberer3. 1. 1 Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Torino, Torino, Italy franco.cavallo@unito.it. 2. 1 Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Torino, Torino, Italy. 3. 2 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Research Unit Child Public Health, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. 4. 3 Head of Adolescent and Child Health Research, CRIPACC, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield UK. 5. 4 Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, Poland. 6. 5 Department of Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. 7. 6 Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, RigaStradiņš University, Riga, Latvia. 8. 7 University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal & CMDT/ Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Lisbon, Portugal.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Self-rated health (SRH) in adolescence is known to be associated with health outcomes in later life. We carried out a trend analysis on data coming from three waves of data collected in 32 countries (mostly European) from 2002 to 2010 coming from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children surveys. METHODS: SRH in adolescents was assessed using a Likert scale (excellent, good, fair and poor). Responses were dichotomized into 'excellent' vs. 'rest'. Country, age and gender groups were compared based on the odds ratio of declaring excellent SRH in 2010 with respect to 2002 and 2006. RESULTS: The trend for European adolescents indicates an improvement over the last decade, although, in the majority of countries, a higher proportion of adolescents rate their health as excellent during the period 2002-06 with respect to the second half of the decade (2006-10).Girls were found to constantly rate their health as poorer, compared to their male peers, in all countries. Age has also a very stable trend towards a decreasing rating of health with increasing age. CONCLUSION: Decreased rating of health in the period 2006-10 may be a signal of the socio-economic difficulties of Europe in the last part of this decade.
BACKGROUND: Self-rated health (SRH) in adolescence is known to be associated with health outcomes in later life. We carried out a trend analysis on data coming from three waves of data collected in 32 countries (mostly European) from 2002 to 2010 coming from the Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children surveys. METHODS: SRH in adolescents was assessed using a Likert scale (excellent, good, fair and poor). Responses were dichotomized into 'excellent' vs. 'rest'. Country, age and gender groups were compared based on the odds ratio of declaring excellent SRH in 2010 with respect to 2002 and 2006. RESULTS: The trend for European adolescents indicates an improvement over the last decade, although, in the majority of countries, a higher proportion of adolescents rate their health as excellent during the period 2002-06 with respect to the second half of the decade (2006-10).Girls were found to constantly rate their health as poorer, compared to their male peers, in all countries. Age has also a very stable trend towards a decreasing rating of health with increasing age. CONCLUSION: Decreased rating of health in the period 2006-10 may be a signal of the socio-economic difficulties of Europe in the last part of this decade.
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