Health-related quality of life, and its determinants, among older people in rural Vietnam

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hoi, Le V ^a,b   Chuc, Nguyen Tk ^b   Lindholm, Lars ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIET NAM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; VIETNAM;

EID: 77956460409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-549     Document Type: Article

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