Assessment of the health of Americans: The average health-related quality of life and its inequality across individuals and groups

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Asada, Yukiko ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEGRO; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 27344447448     PISSN: 14787954     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-3-7     Document Type: Article

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