Quality of life in Lithuanian population: The impact of country residence and socio-economic status

Central European Journal of Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 476-482

  Reklaitiene, Regina ^a   Bacevičiene, Migle ^a   Andrijauskas, K ^b  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^b Primary Health Care Centre   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Quality of life; Socio economic status; Urban and rural residence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; RURAL POPULATION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 70349690335     PISSN: 18951058     EISSN: 16443640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11536-009-0058-x     Document Type: Article

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