Worsening trends in self-rated health and correlates in Chinese adolescents in Hong Kong: a population-based panel study from 1999/2000 to 2014/15.

Increasing prevalence of very poor/poor SRH from 1999/2000 to 2014/15 was found among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents, which was greater in girls, adolescents being overweight/obese and those having unemployed parents or unhealthy lifestyles. Strategies to reduce health inequality should consider multiple factors, especially modifiable factors including lifestyles.