Mental health and health-related quality of life in Croatian Island population

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 635-640

  Mavrinac, Gorka Vuletić ^a,b   Mujkić, Aida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b NONE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; PAIN; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL STATUS; VITAL CAPACITY;

CROATIA; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 33747870494     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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