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Women’s environmental quality of life is key to their overall quality of life and health: Global evidence from the WHOQOL-100

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  • Suzanne M Skevington
  • Kara Schick-Makaroff
  • Christine Rowland
  • Anita Molzahn
  • and the WHOQOL Group

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Gender inequalities in health-related quality of life (QoL) are generally few and small, even in large surveys. Many generic measures limit assessment to QoL overall and its physical and psychological dimensions, while overlooking internationally important environmental, social, and spiritual QoL domains. Unique cross-cultural legacy data was collected using four WHOQOL-100 surveys of adults living in 43 cultures world-wide (17,608 adults; ages 15–101). It was first used to examined gender profiles of its five QoL international domains, and their component facets. Few significant gender differences (p

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  • Suzanne M Skevington & Kara Schick-Makaroff & Christine Rowland & Anita Molzahn & and the WHOQOL Group, 2024. "Women’s environmental quality of life is key to their overall quality of life and health: Global evidence from the WHOQOL-100," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(10), pages 1-21, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0310445
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0310445
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