Individual Quality of Life
Subtitle: Approaches to Conceptualism and Assessment
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9789057024245
Subjects: Anthropology; Disability: social aspects; Public health & preventive medicine; Medical Social Work; Psychology (Specific Aspects); Psychology; Social Science; Psychotherapy - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychotherapy; General; Human Services
First sentence: About ten years ago, one of the editors persuaded the multinational pharmaceutical company for which he was then working that the intention of its medical department to explore the value of quality of life (a so-called study of which had just been published by a competitor)(Croog et al., 1986) for its own clinical trails of new drugs would be better served by seeking new methods that focused on the individual, rather than the "epidemiological" methods then in vogue (Joyce et al., 1987).