Measuring Health: A Review of Quality of Life Measurement Scales - Softcover

Bowling, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335154352 ISBN 13: 9780335154357

Publisher: Open University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Increasing attention is being paid to the consequences of health and ill-health and to the outcomes of health care provision. Indices of health status in current usage focus on ill-health and are based on negative conceptualizations of health (eg mortality and morbidity rates, the self-reporting of symptoms, illness and functional ability). More attention is now being given to the development of positive measures of health, a term which encompasses concepts of social health, social well-being and quality of life. This volume reviews a wide range of popular measures of functional disability and health status, as well as broader measures of health such as those concerned with psychological well-being (eg anxiety and depression), emotional well-being (eg life satisfaction, morale and happiness), and social networks, support and loneliness. The book should interest social scientists and all health care professionals involved in the measurement of health.

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About the Author

Ann Bowling is Senior Lecturer in Health Services Research jointly in the Department of Public Health, City and Hackney Health Authority and Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335154352
• ISBN 13: 9780335154357
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208