2002 Perceptions of Overall
Health
Provided below are results from Michigan State University's 2002
National Collegiate Health Assessment relating to perceptions of
overall health.
The table to the right shows the percentages of respondents who
rated their health as excellent, very good, good, fair or poor.
The table indicates that:
• Overall, 64.5% of the respondents rated their health as
excellent (22.7%) or very good (41.8%).
• Males were more likely to rate their health as excellent
or very good than were females.
• Whites were more likely than other racial/ethnic groups
to rate their health as excellent or very good. There were no statistically
significant differences in ratings among age groups, or whether
respondents lived on-campus or off-campus.
• Respondents who reported having higher grade point averages
tended to rate their health more highly than did those who reported
having lower grade point averages. A possible implication of this
is that, for at least some students, lower academic performance
is a consequence of health problems they experience as students. |
