Landless female peasants living in resettlement residential areas in China have poorer quality of life than males: Results from a household study in the Yangtze River Delta region

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Liang, Ying ^a   Li, Shuqin ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CFA; China; Gender differences; Landless female peasants; QOL; WHOQOL BREF; Yangtze river delta

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHINA; CITY; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RIVER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY SIZE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS; URBANIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHINA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; OWNERSHIP; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84988354307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-12-71     Document Type: Article

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