Lay people's evaluations of health: are there variations between different subgroups?
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Lay people's evaluations of health: are there variations between different subgroups?
STUDY OBJECTIVE To elicit lay concepts of health and to see whether these are related to various sociodemographic factors, as has been suggested by previous smaller studies. DESIGN AND SETTING A total of 196 people aged 18 and over were selected, as a representative sample of the general population, from the electoral registers of Walsall and Dudley in the West Midlands. Respondents were inte...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.48.3.248