Assessment of the health of Americans: the average health-related quality of life and its inequality across individuals and groups.

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Published in Popul Health Metr on July 13, 2005

Authors

Yukiko Asada1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 1V7, Canada. yukiko.asada@dal.ca

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