Health-related quality of life in diabetic patients and controls without diabetes in refugee camps in the Gaza strip: A cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Eljedi, Ashraf ^a   Mikolajczyk, Rafael T ^b   Kraemer, Alexander ^b   Laaser, Ulrich ^b  

^a ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF GAZA   (Palestine)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; SEX RATIO; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDDLE EAST; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFUGEES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 33750822258     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-268     Document Type: Article

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