Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in the Multiethnic Singapore Population - A National Cohort Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Leow, Melvin Khee Shing ^a,b,c,d   Griva, Konstadina ^e   Choo, Robin ^b   Wee, Hwee Lin ^e,f   Thumboo, Julian ^c,d,f   Tai, E Shyong ^e   Newman, Stanton ^g  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^g CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINESE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; SINGAPORE; WELLBEING; AGED; CHINA; ETHNOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; INDIA; MALAYSIA; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INDIA; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGAPORE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879544112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067138     Document Type: Article

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