Is Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) a valid indicator for health systems evaluation?
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Is Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) a valid indicator for health systems evaluation?
The purpose of this review is to do a discussion about the use of the HRQoL as a health measure of the populations that enable to analyze its potential use as a measure of development and efficiency of health systems. The principal use of the HRQoL is in health technologies economics evaluation; however this measure can be use in public health when need to know the health state of population. T...
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عنوان ژورنال: SpringerPlus
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2193-1801
DOI: 10.1186/2193-1801-2-664