Determinants of health-related quality of life in elderly in Tehran, Iran

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Tajvar, Maryam ^a,b   Arab, Mohammad ^b   Montazeri, Ali ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL HEALTH; PAIN; POVERTY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; IRAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 53949106936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-323     Document Type: Article

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