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Health Status and Outcomes
Health Status
Survey Responses: Self-Reported Health
Status n= 1,618
100%
90%
80%
70%
Poor
60%
Fair
50%
Good
40%
Very Good
30%
Excellent
20%
10%
0%
13-34 years
35-64 years
65+ years
Respondents to SVMC’s
community health survey
were asked to share their
perception of their own
health status, ranked
from poor to excellent.
This one-item measure
for health-related quality
of life (HRQOL) has been
shown to be comparable
to the four-item HRQOL
measure utilized by the
BRFSS.51 Results
indicated that, as the age
of respondents
increased, so too did the
proportion of
respondents feeling that
their health was fair or
poor.
As a subjective measure, respondents may take different facets of health into consideration when
answering; some may only think about physical health, or some may think of their mental health; still
others may base their response upon how they feel compared to others that they know. Overall, the
measure gives an indication of the quality of life and wellbeing an individual enjoys (in the context of
their situation and expectations).
Disparities in health status identified by SVMC’s community health survey:
44% of Asian respondents reported excellent health, compared to 16% of White or Caucasian
respondents.
Women were over twice as likely to indicate excellent health as men (69% versus 30%)
51
Yin S, Njai R, Barker L, Siegel PZ, Liao Y. Summarizing health-related quality of life (HRQOL): Development and testing of a
one-factor model. Popul Health Metr. 2016; 14-22. doi: 10.1186/s12963-016-0091-3
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Community Health Needs Assessment 2021