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Increased expectations of the society have developed parallel with improvements in technology in all areas of human life. These expectations may extend from day-to-day needs to the most sophisticated aspects of human perceptions through the wide spectrum of the health-disease continuum scale.
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Weitzman, S. (1990). Quality of Life: Methodological Key Issues. In: Laaser, U., Roccella, E.J., Rosenfeld, J.B., Wenzel, H. (eds) Costs and Benefits in Health Care and Prevention. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75781-5_14
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