Self-Assessed Health Among Indigenous Australians: How Valid Is a Global Question?
Beverly Sibthorpe, PhD,
Ian Anderson, MBBS and
Joan Cunningham, ScD
Beverly Sibthorpe is with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Ian Anderson is with the VicHealth Koori Health Research and Community Development Unit, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Joan Cunningham is with the Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
FIGURE 1—Self-assessed fair or poor health, by age and sex: National Health Survey, 1995 (a), and National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey, 1994 (b).