Quality of life indicators and health: Current status and emerging conceptions
Social Indicators ResearchPublished 1 January 1996
Dennis Raphael, Rebecca Renwick, Ivan Brown, Irving Rootman
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Quality of life is an increasingly common theme in the health status and health promotion literatures and the links among the social indicators, quality of life, and health promotions areas are examined.
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