Quality of life
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See for
functional recovery, recovery of function
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Broader Terms
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Related Terms
human morbidity, rehabilitation, satisfaction
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Scope Note
subjective measurement of an individual's well being.
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- Quality of Life is an area of study that has attracted an ever increasing amount of interest over the past two decades, particularly in the areas of health, rehabilitation, disabilities studies, and social services, but also in medicine, education, and others.
- Life-satisfaction surveys Our starting point for a methodologically improved and more comprehensive measure of quality of life is subjective life-satisfaction surveys (surveys of life satis- faction, as opposed to surveys of the related concept of happiness,are preferred for a number of reasons).
- Quality of Life is often defined in a very negative way, simply as the absence of health threatening hazards from the environment or as the absence of disease or medical problems.
- Making a Decision Assessing a pet's quality of life is an ongoing process, not a one-time decision.
- Health-related quality of life is related to COPD disease severity.
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