General Health Status
Summary Indicator Report Data View Options
Self-reported Fair or Poor Health by County, New Mexico,
Self-reported Fair or Poor Health by Health Region, New Mexico, 2020
Self-reported Fair or Poor Health by Urban and Rural Counties, New Mexico, 2020
Self-reported Fair or Poor Health by U.S. States, 2020
Why Is This Important?
Self-rated health (SRH) has been collected for many years on National Center for Health Statistics surveys and since 1993 on the state-based BRFSS. SRH is an independent predictor of important health outcomes including mortality, morbidity, and functional status. It is considered to be a reliable indicator of a person's perceived health and is a good global assessment of a person's well being.
Definition
Percentage of adults aged 18 years and older who reported fair or poor general health. Question wording: "Would you say that in general your health is excellent, very good, good, fair or poor?"
Data Sources
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, together with New Mexico Department of Health, Injury and Behavioral Epidemiology Bureau.
(https://www.nmhealth.org/about/erd/ibeb/brfss/) - U.S. data source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) Prevalence and Trends Data.
(https://www.cdc.gov/brfss/brfssprevalence)
How the Measure is Calculated
| Numerator: | Number of survey respondents who reported fair or poor general health. |
| Denominator: | Total number of survey respondents except those with missing, "Don't know/Not sure," and "Refused" responses. |