Health: perception versus observation

By Amartya Sen. British medical journal, 2002

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Income, health, and well-being around the world: evidence from the Gallup World Poll. (2008, result): “After all, countries with high rates of HIV prevalence do not systematically report poorer health satisfaction, a finding that is in line with earlier reports that self-reported health measures are often better in places where people are sicker, and presumably more used to being sick (Sen, 2002; Mur”
The Ability to go about Without Shame: A Proposal for Internationally Comparable Indicators of Shame and Humiliation (2007, neutral): “6 Sen (1979, 1985b, 1987, 1993b, 2002).”
True health vs response styles: exploring cross-country differences in self-reported health. (2007, background): “However, the comparability of self-reported measures across groups of individuals has been questioned in a number of studies [2,3,4].”
Consumption, health, gender, and poverty (2003, background): “Chen and Murray (1989) documented this phenomenon in India, where reported morbidity is much higher in Kerala than in Bihar, even though life-expectancy, as well as a host of anecdotal evidence, indicates precisely the opposite, see also Sen (2002).”
Enhancing the Validity and Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measurement in Survey Research (2003, neutral): “Because the actual (but not necessarily reported) levels of the vignettes are invariant over respondents, variability in vignette answers reveals incomparability.”