“…After some modifications in the EASY-Care Standard, the last version designated in this study as the EASYCare-2010, has been used in many countries worldwide, 14,15,17,41,42 and was validated in Portugal and Poland. [35][36] It covers 49 items, including a summary global measure of self-rated health using a 5-point scale with response options 'excellent', 'very good', 'good', 'fair' and 'poor'. The first three response options were collated into the category 'self-rated healthy' and the other two options into the category 'self-rated unhealthy'.…”