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One of the most recent one, the Family\/Household Health Survey - 2017 aims to fill the gaps, at the same time, aids in discussions on primary healthcare.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Objectives:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Analyses done in this research are aimed at appraising the self-assessed health and to examine age-sex and geographic differentials and their probable interconnections with chronic diseases, injuries, and periodic examinations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Data and Methods:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This survey conducted in October\u2013December, 2017 covered both native and foreigner households from all the 13 administrative areas through a random sample procedure involving primary sampling units and secondary sampling units. A portion of the published data on self-assessment of health, chronic diseases, injuries, and periodic medical examinations were analyzed.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>More than half of the persons in the Kingdom, reportedly, are in good health; more so among females than males: proportions decreased with increasing age up to 40 years, thereafter increased sharply. Moreover, the major regions have lesser proportion of people with good health. Prevalence of chronic diseases increases with age, in both total and native population, but with variations across specific diseases \u2013 hypertension, diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and with geographic differentials. On the other hand, there are injuries (from traffic accidents and others) occurred at house, work\/school, public place, and other places; pertinent with geographic variations. Moreover, age, sex, and regional differences in periodic health examinations have a contributing effect on health assessments. Moreover, the median age shows a pattern resembling adults assessing good health; chronic diseases after 50s; injuries before 40s; periodic medical examinations in 50s; with females at a lower age, in both groups of population.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The national health system played an important role not only in health status and health assessments but also in building confidence and trust and thereby enhancing optimism, realism, recognition, self-awareness, and acceptance of physical condition. Thus, age, sex, and regional variations in health assessment are born out of chronic diseases, injuries, and periodic medical examinations and also of expectations and experiences. Generation of such information, effective dissemination, and regular discussions at various levels followed by in-depth analyses raise the primary healthcare and thus the population health.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.4103\/jfmpc.jfmpc_2242_21","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,19]],"date-time":"2022-10-19T07:34:07Z","timestamp":1666164847000},"page":"4919-4931","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Self-health assessments in Saudi Arabia: Directions for an integrated primary healthcare"],"prefix":"10.4103","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Asharaf Abdul","family":"Salam","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"King Saud University Center for Population Studies, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"276","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"B2-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4092","DOI":"10.4103\/jfmpc.jfmpc_495_20","article-title":"Assessment of health-related quality of life among obese patients in Abha, Saudi Arabia","volume":"9","author":"Almojarthe","year":"2020","journal-title":"J Family Med Prim Care"},{"key":"B3-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"645","DOI":"10.26719\/2002.8.4-5.645","article-title":"Organization of the Saudi health system","volume":"8","author":"Al-Yousuf","year":"2002","journal-title":"East Mediterr Health J"},{"key":"B4-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5035","DOI":"10.4103\/jfmpc.jfmpc_895_20","article-title":"Risk factors of colorectal cancer among Saudi population: Case-control study","volume":"9","author":"Alqahtani","year":"2020","journal-title":"J Family Med Prim Care"},{"key":"B5-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2668","DOI":"10.4103\/jfmpc.jfmpc_2087_20","article-title":"Schoolteacher's knowledge, attitudes, and practice toward student with epilepsy in Taif, Saudi Arabia: Cross-sectional study","volume":"10","author":"Alzhrani","year":"2021","journal-title":"J Family Med Prim Care"},{"key":"B6-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"712","DOI":"10.4103\/jfmpc.jfmpc_965_20","article-title":"Knowledge, attitude, and practice study regarding cholera among the people in Jazan city, KSA","volume":"10","author":"Ali","year":"2021","journal-title":"J Family Med Prim Care"},{"key":"B7-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4873","DOI":"10.3402\/ljm.v5i0.4873","article-title":"Patient satisfaction with quality of primary health care in Benghazi, Libya","volume":"5","author":"Salam","year":"2010","journal-title":"Libyan J Med"},{"key":"B8-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1754","DOI":"10.4103\/jfmpc.jfmpc_1745_20","article-title":"Patient satisfaction with services at the family medicine employee clinic in a tertiary hospital in Riyadh","volume":"10","author":"Allafi","year":"2021","journal-title":"J Family Med Prim Care"},{"key":"B9-20240828","first-page":"39","article-title":"An examination of primary health care quality in Benghazi, Libya","volume":"9","author":"Salam","year":"2010","journal-title":"World Family Med J"},{"key":"B10-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1186\/s12877-016-0239-9","article-title":"Self-perceived health in functionally independent older people: Associated factors","volume":"16","author":"Machon","year":"2016","journal-title":"BMC Geriatr"},{"key":"B11-20240828","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"61","DOI":"10.1186\/1476-072X-5-61","article-title":"Health indicators and human development in the Arab region","volume":"5","author":"Boutayeb","year":"2006","journal-title":"Int J Health Geog"},{"key":"B12-20240828","journal-title":"United Nations. 2002. 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