title: The reliability of the Minimum European Health Module.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The Minimum European Health Module (MEHM) consists of 3 global questions concerning 3 health domains: self-perceived health, chronic conditions and long-term activity limitation. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the reliability of the MEHM.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants of the Belgian Food Consumption Survey were interviewed twice: 170 individuals were selected for the MEHM reliability evaluation. For each of the 3 questions Pearson and Kappa coefficients were estimated. Analyses were stratified by gender, age, education, language and time between the interviews.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The Pearson correlations are between 0.73 and 0.81. The Kappa estimates are good or excellent: 0.74 (self-perceived health), 0.77 (chronic conditions) and 0.68 (activity limitation). Also stratified analyses indicated in general an acceptable reliability.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The MEHM has an acceptable reliability.
authors.affiliation: Unit of Epidemiology, Scientific Institute of Public Health, J Wytsmanstraat 14, 1050, Brussels, Belgium. b.cox@iph.fgov.be
authors.forename: Bianca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cox
authors.forename: Herman
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: van Oyen
authors.forename: Emmanuelle
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cambois
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jagger
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: le Roy
authors.forename: Jean-Marie
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Robine
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Romieu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001530:Belgium; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055815:Young Adult