Self-assessment of health related quality of life in Croatian population - Gender and educational differences

Periodicum Biologorum

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-57

  Vuletić, Gorka ^a   Mujkić, Aida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROATIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0038690707     PISSN: 00315362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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