"quality of Life"

This book is a collection of chapters addressing various aspects of quality of life and health psychology from a biopsychosocial perspective. The book explores how health, climate, psychiatric diseases, and social conditions of specific geographical areas can impact quality of life.

The chapters in this book focus on the physical, social, and emotional components of the concept of quality of life. How diseases affect the quality of life of people is mainly discussed. This research and research results in the book will be used to increase the quality of life by health professionals. This book will attract not only health workers but also environmentalists and social scientists and behavioral scientists.

This volume provides a window into what influences the quality of life, why people live longer, and why we are relatively better off compared to decades ago. This volume provides useful insight into these challenges and helps to highlight a clear and important separation between wellbeing and standard of living, both relevant to assessing the quality of life.

This book highlights measurement tools for HRQoL, as well as predictors and modifiers, examining HRQoL in various disease states, including psychological health. It discusses ethical issues in the use of HRQoL measurements. The book is a compendium of original research, sharing perspectives from across developing and developed world settings. It is a useful text for researchers and students of academic disciplines in public health and clinical studies, extending to healthcare administrators and policymakers.

This book examines supportive and palliative care and quality of life in cancer patients.