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Quality of life

Cancer, 1987
The term quality of life (QL) is a global characterization usually consisting of the following factors: physical function, symptoms from disease and/or treatment, occupational and social interactions, and psychological parameters, including mood with some overall assessment of well-being, such as happiness or satisfaction.
C R, Smart, J W, Yates
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Proposal of a new scoring formula for the Dermatology Life Quality Index in psoriasis

British Journal of Dermatology, 2018
‘Not relevant’ responses (NRRs) on the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) may occur in up to 40% of patients with psoriasis. As these responses are scored as the item of the questionnaire having no impact on the patients’ lives at all, it is more ...
F. Rencz   +9 more
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Quality-Adjusted Life Years

Practical Neurology, 2008
Many health systems now use cost-effectiveness analysis to decide which interventions and programmes to fund. A key issue for such decision making is how to measure health outcomes from interventions to reflect changes in both health-related quality of life and life expectancy.
Yolanda, Bravo Vergel, Mark, Sculpher
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Quality of Life

2011
A judgment about quality of life means an evaluation of major aspects, or of the entirety, of a life situation, a life path, or a society. The sister concept of well-being likewise involves an evaluation of a person’s or group’s situation and can focus on any of many valued aspects of (a) life, or some set thereof, or their totality.
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The Quality of Life: What Quality? Whose Life?

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 1992
As a consequence of industrialization, we face unprecedented pressures on the carrying capacity of the earth. Desertification, pollution and global climate changes can only increase these pressures, and will cause vast increases in the number of refugees and widespread risks to human health.
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Quality of Life: A Challenge to Design

The Design Journal, 1999
It is argued that in order to design for quality of life, designers should focus on the capabilities of the users and the ‘affordances’ artifacts give to these capabilities. This article provides an approach within which various concepts are matched with the experiential, the social and the identifying nature of designs (products. objects and artifacts)
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Life, Quality of (See Quality of Life; QALY)

2021
Quality of life is a highly controversial concept as a result of being confused with other closely related concepts such as health and well-being and by being perceived differently throughout history, during someone’s own lifetime, or according to culture. Although the consensual indicators used to consider quality of life are biological, psychological,
Henk ten Have   +1 more
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