Validation and Test-Retest Reliability of a Health Measure, Health as Ability of Acting, Based on the Welfare Theory of Health

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-103

  Snellman, Ingrid ^a   Jonsson, Bosse ^a   Wikblad, Karin ^b  

^a MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

health; questionnaire o.h.alth; reliability; validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SATISFACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GOALS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857086694     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: 15523918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278711414049     Document Type: Review

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