Health and subjective wellbeing in Algeria: A developing country in transition

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 223-238

  Tiliouine, Habib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ORAN   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Algerian population; Health; Personal well being index; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866253504     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-009-9073-y     Document Type: Article

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