Employment assistance policies of Chinese government play positive roles! The impact of post-earthquake employment assistance policies on the health-related quality of life of Chinese earthquake populations

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 835-857

  Liang, Ying ^a   Cao, Runxia ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG GONGSHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese government; Earthquake populations; Health related quality of life; Post disaster employment assistance policies; SEM; SF 36; Sichuan earthquakes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928589997     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: 15730921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-014-0620-z     Document Type: Article

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