Sun Sun|Jiaying Chen|Magnus Johannesson|Paul Kind|Lei Xu|Yaoguang Zhang|Kristina Burström
Population health status in China: EQ-5D results, by age, sex and socio-economic status, from the National Health Services Survey 2008
Karolinska Institutet|Nanjing Medical University|Stockholm School of Economics|University of York|Karolinska Institutet
measure analyse national eq5d data provide norms chinese general population age sex educational level income employment status eq5d instrument included national health services survey 2008 n 120703 measure healthrelated quality life hrqol descriptive analyses socioeconomic status educational level income employment status clinical characteristics discomfort past 2 weeks diagnosed chronic diseases past 6 months hospitalised past 12 months stratified sex age group health status declines advancing age women reported worse health status men line eq5d population health studies countries previous population health studies china eq5d instrument distinguished well known groups positive association socioeconomic status hrqol observed among chinese population persons clinical characteristics worse hrqol without study provides chinese population hrqol data measured eq5d instrument based national representative sample main findings different subgroups consistent results eq5d population studies countries discriminative validity supported