Health related quality of life measures by demographics and common health risks, Jordan 2004

International Journal of Public Health

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 106-110

  Belbeisi, Adel ^a   Zindah, Meyasser ^a   Walke, Henry T ^b   Jarrar, Bassam ^b   Mokdad, Ali H ^c  

^a Jordan Ministry of Health   (Jordan)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Health status indicators; Jordan; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; JORDAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 67650661417     PISSN: 16618556     EISSN: 1420911X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-009-0014-1     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Measuring Healthy Days: Population assessment of health related quality of life. Atlanta, Georgia: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, 2000. (Accessed August 25, 2008 at http://www.cdc.gov/hrqol/ monograph.htm).
2. Zahran HS, Kobau R, Moriarty DG, Zack MM, Holt J, Donehoo R. Health-related quality of life surveillance - United States, 1993-2002. MMWR Surveillance Summary 2005;54(SS-4):1-35.
3. StataCorp. 2003. Stata Statistical Software: Release 8.0. College Station, TX: Stata Corporation
4. Hennessy CH, Moriarty DG, Zack MM, Scherr PA, Brackbill R. Measuring health-related quality of life for public health surveillance. Public Health Reports 1994;109:665-72.
5. CDC. Self-reported frequent mental distress among adults - United States, 1993-2001. MMWR 2004;53:963-6.
6. Strine TW, Chapman DP, Kobau R, Balluz L, Mokdad A. Depression, anxiety, and physical impairments and quality of life in the U.S. non-institutionalized population. Psychiatric Services 2004;55:1408-13.
7. Strine TW, Okoro CA, Chapman DP, et al. Health related quality of life and health risk behaviors among smokers. Am J Prev Med 2005;28:182-7.
8. Andresen EM, Catlin TK, Wyrwich KW, Jackson-Thompson J. Retest reliability of surveillance questions on health related quality of life. J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:339-43.
9. Dominick KL, Ahern FM, Gold CH, Heller DA. Relationship of health-related quality of life to health care utilization and mortality among older adults. Aging Clin Exp Res 2002;14:499-508.
10. Jia H, Muennig P, Lubetkin EI, Gold MR. Predicting geographic variations in behavioural risk factors: An analysis of physical and mental healthy days. J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:150-5.
11. Moriarty DG, Zack MM, Kobau R. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Healthy Days Measures - population tracking of perceived physical and mental health over time. Health Qual Life Outcomes 2003;1:37.
12. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. BRFSS prevalence data. (Accessed August 25, 2008 at http://www.cdc.gov/brfss).
13. Jiang Y, Hesser JE. Associations between health-related quality of life and demographics and health risks. Results from Rhode Islands 2002 behavioral risk factor survey. Health Qual Life Outcomes 2006;4:14.