Study on perceived-health of population and its influencing factors

  Objective   To perfect the measuring means of perceived-health and to find out the true level of perceivedhealth of popultion and social influencing factors in our country.

  Methods   10 000 people aged over 18 years are interviewed using WHO questionnaire.

  Results   Most people give high scores to their health status.Many social factors have effects on perceived-health, and people in different social classes have inequality in their health.

  Conclusion   Though people have differenthealth cognition, expectation and criterion, perceived-health is still a valuable tool to measure health.