Book description:

MEASURING HEALTH

A review of quality of life measurement scales

Third Edition

Reviews of previous editions:

An excellent resource for anyone involved in health research and highly recommended.

Palliative Medicine

A valuable source book for health services researchers, health care providers, and others interested in quantifying quality of life for clinical or research purposes.

The International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Includes accounts of a number of recently developed scales, while retaining the breadth, concision and clarity that marked the first edition.

Medicine, Healthcare and Philosophy

Second Edition Highly Commended BMA Medical Book Competition 1998

This thoroughly revised and updated edition offers a comprehensive guide to measures of health and is an essential reference resource for all health professionals and students. Containing details of the use of most of the major measures of health and functioning, the new edition includes:

  • • A new chapter on measuring global quality of life

  • • Updated analysis of measures of subjective well-being

  • • A revised and up-to-date selection of useful addresses

Measuring Health is key reading for upper level undergraduates and postgraduates in health studies, health sciences, research methods and social sciences.

Ann Bowling is a social scientist and is Professor of Health Services Research in the Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences at University College London. She is also author of Measuring Disease and Research Methods in Health, both published by Open University Press.

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