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Community-Level Factors Associated With Health-Related Quality Of Life Among Older Adults, Yu-Hsiu Lin
Community-Level Factors Associated With Health-Related Quality Of Life Among Older Adults, Yu-Hsiu Lin
Theses and Dissertations
Objective: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and well-being is a new topic area for Healthy People 2020 in the U.S. In a broad-based literature review, more research explored individual level factors of HRQOL, and few focused on older adults. Multilevel analysis was seldom adopted to investigate the relationship between area-level socioeconomic or social environment factors and HRQOL. In lieu of the traditional Chapter 4 (Results) and Chapter 5 (Conclusion), two manuscripts representing the two specific research aims are included. The main aim of first manuscript was to explore the association between area deprivation, area health resources and older adults’ HRQOL. …