Improving the quality of life : recommendations for people with and without disabilities
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Improving the quality of life : recommendations for people with and without disabilities
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1994
Available at 16 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Reprinted from Social indicators research 33 (1-3), 1994."
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The book is unique in two distinct ways. First, it focuses on improving quality of life in contrast to other books that have tended to focus more on its conceptualization and assessment. Second, it deals with improving quality of life in a variety of disabled populations, not just one, and includes chapters on people with chronic mental or physical conditions and those without disabilities at all (i.e. so-called normal people). The book outlines some of the challenges and controversies in the quality-of-life domain and attempts to synthesize the key issue and to draw generalizable conclusions.
The book is mainly for university students and faculty and practitioners from various disciplines working in the field. It will also interest those members of the general public who wish to improve their own quality of life or that of their relatives or friends.
Table of Contents
- Quality of Life as a Concept and Measurable Entity
- T.R. Parmenter. Enhancing Quality of Life in the Population at Large
- D.R. Evans. Forging Ahead: Linking Health and Behavior to Improve Quality of Life in Older People
- M.G. Ory, D.M. Cox. Using Quality of Life Information to Set Priorities in Health Policy
- R.M. Kaplan. Improving the Quality of Life of People with Severe Mental Disorders
- C. Mercier. Quality of Life for Students with Disabilities in Transition from School to Adulthood
- A.S. Halpern. Improving the Quality of Life: Prescriptions for Change
- D.M. Romney, R.I. Brown, P.S. Fry.
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