Author(s): Anes, Eugénia ; Fernandes, Adília ; Magalhães, Carlos Pires ; Pimentel, Maria Helena ; Mata, Maria Augusta ; Sousa, Filomena ; Brás, Manuel Alberto
Date: 2014
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/9594
Origin: Biblioteca Digital da UPB
Subject(s): Health status perception; Elderly; Rural living; Health determinants; SF-36v2; Quality of life
The assessment of the health status perception is increasingly used in monitoring the health of populations. This assessment is useful to the planning of a comprehensive, multidimensional and dynamic intervention in the elderly, envisaging a successful aging.The area of residence is one of the determining factors to the perception of health status and may also condition its relationship with other factors which affect health (Araujo & Ramos Lopes, 2011).
