Measuring Disease
Subtitle: A Review of Disease-Specific Quality of Life Measurement Scales
Edition: 2 Sub edition
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: April 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780335206421
Subjects: Health systems & services; Public health & preventive medicine; Social research & statistics; Evaluation Of Health Services; Medical Research; Medical / Nursing; Medical; General; Health Care Delivery; Public Health; Research; Health status indicators; Quality of life
First sentence: In the developed world, with the emphasis on affluence and with the increasing longevity of populations, there is a general interest in how to achieve the 'goodness' of life, sometimes called life satisfaction or quality of life.