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Discuss the Concept of Quality of Life. Evaluate the Contribution of Psychology to Quality of life.
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Discuss the Concept of Quality of Life. Evaluate the Contribution of Psychology to QoL Over recent years, measures of health status have increasingly opted for measures of subjective health status, that ask the individuals themselves to rate their health. These types of measures are known as quality of life scales. But what is 'quality of life'? Until quite recently, quality of life was not considered an issue of psychological importance in areas such as chronic illness. But reports of a Medline search on this term indicated surges of its use in many different eras, suggesting that 'quality of life' is generally in vogue. But, to date, there is no consensus as to what it actually is. According to Aaronson, Calais de Silva in 1986, for many years it was measured in terms of the length of a patient's survival and any signs of a present disease, with no consideration of the...
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