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Measuring and monitoring quality-of-life in population surveys: Still a challenge for public health research

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  1. Federal Public Health Institute in Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer (head of the Research Unit Quality of Life and Child Health)

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Ravens-Sieberer, U. Measuring and monitoring quality-of-life in population surveys: Still a challenge for public health research. Soz Präventivmed 47, 203–204 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01326397

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