Health Indicators as Measures of Individual Health Status, Their Perceived Importance, and Associated Factors: Cross-Sectional Observational Study
Age emerged as a critical factor influencing the ratings of the 29 health indicators and showed the largest effect size along with sex, professional group, and educational level. These findings can be used as a quantitative foundation for the development of an objective measure for individual health status, for grouping health indicators, for conducting demographic factor adjustments during data analysis, for designing customized behavioral intervention studies based on demographic factors, or for health policy-making or program development.
Authors
- Lu Shi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8352-2813)
- Timothy Law (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3899-072X)
- Lina K. Himawan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2641-1655)
- Ronald W. Gimbel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8185-4013)
- Temiloluwa Sokoya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7542-3804)
- Sarah F. Griffin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4820-3985)
- Francisca Lekey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3921-3092)
- Xia Jing (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1916-4588)
- Yuchun Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0925-5507)
- Sebastián Díaz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7155-6466)
Institutions
- Florida State University (US)
- Ohio University (US)
- Jackson State University (US)
- Clemson University (US)
- Northeast Ohio Medical University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
- Published
- 2025-09-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2196/65616
- Primary Topic
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00