Quality of Life Assessment: International Perspectives

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. The Development of Cross-Cultural Quality of Life Assessment Instruments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Translation of Health Status Instruments

      • N. Sartorius, W. Kuyken

      Pages 3-18

   3. Cross-Cultural Validation of Quality of Life Measures

      • D. L. Patrick, D. J. Wild, E. S. Johnson, T. H. Wagner, M. A. Martin

      Pages 19-32

   4. Ensuring International Equivalence of Quality of Life Measures: Problems and Approaches to Solutions

      • M. Bullinger

      Pages 33-40

   5. The Development of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment Instrument (the WHOQOL)

      • The WHOQOL Group

      Pages 41-57

3. Perspectives on Quality of Life

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. The Relationship Between Health Economics and Health-Related Quality of Life

      • J. A. Fox-Rushby

      Pages 61-74

   3. The PCASEE Model: An Approach to Subjective Well-Being

      • P. Bech

      Pages 75-79

4. Quality of Life Assessment in Cancer

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Quality of Life Assessment in Southwest Oncology Group Clinical Trials: Translating and Validating a Spanish Questionnaire

      • C. M. Moinpour

      Pages 83-97

   3. Quality of Life Assessment in Cancer Patients in India: Cross-Cultural Issues

      • S. Saxena

      Pages 99-107

   4. Measuring the Quality of Life in Breast Cancer

      • L. Fallowfield

      Pages 109-127

5. Quality of Life Assessment in Specific Populations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. The Experiences and Quality of Life of Informal Caregivers

      • H. Herrman, H. Schofield, B. Murphy, B. Singh

      Pages 131-150

   3. Quality of Life Assessment in Arthritis

      • S. M. Skevington

      Pages 151-160

   4. The Assessment of Quality of Life in Refugees

      • J. De Vries, G. L. Van Heck

      Pages 161-175

   5. Quality of Life in Hypertensives and Normotensives in Israel: Introducing a Self-Structured Subjective Measure

      • M. Amir, D. Bar-on, N. Cristal

      Pages 177-184

   6. Subjective Quality of Life Assessment in Therapeutic Trials: Presentation of a New Instrument in France (SQLP: Subjective Quality of Life Profile) and First Results

      • A. Dazord, P. Gerin, J. P. Boissel

      Pages 185-195

6. Back Matter

   Pages 197-200

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Considerable data and expertise have accumulated in the assessment of quality of life, but to date this assessment has largely been restricted to the devel- ment of instruments that are used only in the setting in which they were dev- oped. The chapters of this book, taken together, apply this expertise to a re- tively new area: international quality of life assessment, that is to say, consid- ing quality of life from an international perspective, and developing methods for the assessment of quality of life that can be used in more than one cultural setting. The World Health Organization (WHO) initiatives in the area of inter- tional quality of life assessment arose for several compelling reasons. The World Health Organization has a commitment to equitable and accessible health care for all. This commitment refers not only to health in its narrow sense of the absence of disease and impairment, but to health as astate of physical, mental and social well-being. Disease and impairment affect not just the physical domain of life but also a person's psychological state, level of - dependence and social relationships. This is a reality not yet fully reflected in health care settings. The broadening in focus in the measurement of health to include indicators which address this more holistic sense of health is a welcome emerging trend. The primary aim of any health intervention is to maximise health and minimise disease, thereby enhancing patients' quality of life.

• Life Assessment
• World Health Organization
• assessment
• cancer
• economics
• health
• health economics
• health related quality of life
• health status, cross-cultural
• quality of life

• Division of Mental Health, World Health Organization, Geneva 27, Switzerland

  John Orley, Willem Kuyken

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