Quality of life domains in the healthy public: A trial investigation using attendants for an annual health checkup

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-48

  Tarumi, Kimio ^a   Imanaka, Yuichi ^b   Isshiki, Yuriko ^c   Morimoto, Kanehisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Family; Health services; Healthy public; Quality of life; Work

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; WORK;

EID: 0032895105     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02931249     Document Type: Article

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