Health, Quality of Life and Population Density: A Preliminary Study on "Contextualized" Quality of Life

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 479-488

  Fassio, Omar ^a   Rollero, Chiara ^a   De Piccoli, Norma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Health; Population density; Quality of life; WHOQoL Brief Scale

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; POPULATION DENSITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ITALY;

EID: 84872498504     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-011-9940-4     Document Type: Article

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