Building Quality of Life-related Housing scores using the LARES study - a methodical approach to avoid pitfalls and bias

Housing and Health in Europe: The WHO LARES Project

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 200-215

  Mesbah, Mounir ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

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EID: 84919554841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203885239     Document Type: Chapter

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