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Research data: QUALITY OF LIFE
2016 Understanding evaluations of foreigners in modern South Africa: the relationship between subjective wellbeing and xenophobia
Recent and recurrent violence against immigrants in South Africa highlight the prevalence of xenophobia in the country. Is there a relations...
2016 Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 315 diseases and injuries and Healthy Life Expectancy (HALE), 1990-2015: a systemic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
Healthy life expectancy (HALE) and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) provide summary measures of health across geographies and time tha...
Download this report2016 The association between area level socio-economic position and oral health-related quality of life in the South African adult population
|The objective of this study was to investigate the association between area-level socio-economic position (SEP) and oral health-related qua...
2015 Shadow of the sun: the distribution of wellbeing in sub-Saharan Africa
Out of necessity this chapter offers a fairly general depiction and description of certain aspects of quality of life in sub-Saharan Africa....