Los determinantes de la salud autoevaluada de los latinoamericanos desde un enfoque multinivel.

Abstract

The perception of personal health refers to the evaluation that individuals make of their state of health, classifying it as good or bad. The internal and external factors that influence people's response to selfassessment of their health include economic, cultural, biological, demographic, social and political aspects, among the most important. Thus, self-perceived health should not be interpreted solely as a description of the physical state of a person, based on the absence of disease, but as a multidimensional process conditioned by a series of individual and aggregate variables. In this sense, the present research aims to identify the individual and contextual factors that influence the self-assessment of health in the population over 18 years of age in Latin America. For this, a multilevel logistic model was estimated with data collected from the World Values Survey (2010 - 2014), World Bank, Transparency International and The Economist. The results suggest that, in general, individual characteristics such as income level and interpersonal trust play an important role for individuals in self-assessing their health. On the other hand, the quality of democracy and aggregate trust are the variables that showed a significant effect