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IJE Advance Access originally published online on November 26, 2008
International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(1):319-320; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn241
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Letters to the Editor

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Self-rated health may be adequate for broad assessments of social inequalities in health

S V Subramanian* and Karen Ertel

Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

* Corresponding author. Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.E-mail: svsubram@hsph.harvard.edu

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We thank the authors for their engaging responses,1–3 and especially applaud Singh-Manoux and colleagues and Huisman and colleagues for conducting additional analyses as a response to our letter.4 We take this opportunity to summarize what we have learned from this exchange on the question that implicitly or explicitly motivated the three studies:5–7 are assessments of social inequalities in health based on subjective health problematic? The quick answer, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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