Concepts and Measurement of Quality of Life in Health Care

Concepts and Measurement of Quality of Life in Health Care PDF Author: L.Y Nordenfelt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792328247
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Book Description
This volume brings together a number of scholarly studies on the definition, assessment and measurement of human quality of life. The book contains fundamental analyses of basic concepts such as welfare, wellbeing, happiness and quality of life itself, but contains also discussions on the application of such concepts for measuring purposes mainly in a health care context. Although the approach to these problems in the book is predominantly philosophical, there are also some studies which take a different, mainly sociological and medical, point of view. Most of the authors have a Scandinavian origin and their essays mirror the current debate on quality of life in northern Europe. The book however also contains contributions by distinguished scholars from the U.K., France, Italy and the Netherlands.