Individual Quality of Life - Approaches to Conceptualisation and Assessment (Hardcover)

The rubric "Quality of Life" first came to the explicit attention of the medical profession a little over thirty years ago. Despite the undoubted fact that each one of us has his or her own Quality of Life, be it good or bad, there is still no general agreement about its definition, or the manner in which it should be evaluated. Although much has been written about quality of life, this work has been largely concerned with population-based studies, especially in health policy and health economics. The importance of "individual" quality of life has been neglected, in part because of a failure to define quality of life itself with sufficient care, in part perhaps because of a belief that it is impossible to develop a meaningful method of measuring individual variables.
The editors of this book believe that the primary focus of quality of life is and must continue to be the individual, who alone can define it and assess its changing personal significance. The challenge of presenting this belief

General

Imprint:	Psychology Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 1999
First published:	1999
Editors:	C.R.B. Joyce • Hannah McGee • Ciaran O'Boyle
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	246
ISBN-13:	978-90-5702-424-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Promotions
LSN:	90-5702-424-1
Barcode:	9789057024245

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