Negative self-assessment of health status among adults in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Flávia Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Palmeira, Cátia Suely, Macêdo, Tássia Teles Santana de, Varela, Claudete Dantas da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: REVISA : Revista de Divulgação Científica Sena Aires (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rdcsa.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/177
• topic: Autoavaliação; Avaliação em Saúde; Saúde do Adulto; Epidemiologia Descritiva; Self-Assessment; Health Evaluation; Adult Health; Epidemiology, Descriptive.

Objective: To describe the negative self-assessment of health status among adults in Brazil from 2011 to 2020. Method: Descriptive ecological study of time series conducted with secondary data from the Surveillance of Risk and Protection Factors for Chronic Diseases by Telephone Survey (VIGITEL). The variables considered were: year, region of residence, capital, sex, age, and education. Results: In the period there was a reduction in the rates of Brazilian adults with negative self-assessment of health status. The North region presented the highest percentage of negative self-rated health (3.9%). The frequency of negative self-assessment of health status was higher in women (4.9%), among people aged 65 years or more and in adults with lower education (7.5%). Conclusion: Women, adults with older age and lower level of education have a higher negative self-rated health.