Quality of life and urban / rural living: Preliminary results of a community survey in Italy

Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages 169-174

  Carta, Mauro Giovanni ^a   Aguglia, Eugenio ^a   Caraci, Filippo ^b   Dell'Osso, Liliana ^d   Di Sciascio, Guido ^e   Drago, Filippo ^a   Del Giudice, Emilio ^a   Faravelli, Carlo ^e   Hardoy, Maria Carolina ^a   Lecca, Maria Efisia ^a   Moro, Maria Francesca ^a   Calò, Salvatore ^e   Casacchia, Massimo ^f   Angermeyer, Matthias ^a   Balestrieri, Matteo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age; Community Survey; Gender; Quality of life; Urban rural residence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ITALY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGIST; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SHORT FORM 12; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84878118607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17450179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1745017901208010169     Document Type: Article

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