Quality of Life has Become a Salient Issue for All Parties Involved in the Health Care Process: Quality of Life in Mental Disorders, 2nd Edition
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets. com/reports/c24454) has announced the addition of Quality of Life in Mental Disorders, 2nd Edition to their offering.
Dublin (PRWEB) September 21, 2005
Research and Markets (http://www. researchandmarkets. com/reports/c24454 (http://www. researchandmarkets. com/reports/c24454)) has announced the addition of Quality of Life in Mental Disorders, 2nd Edition to their offering.
The concept of quality of life has come into the forefront in medicine over the last twenty years. Psychiatry, though, has lagged behind in this development and the first edition of the book (proposed here for a second edition) published in 1997, was a landmark in the development of the issue, summarizing previous developments and research in the field.
Quality of life has become a salient issue for all parties involved in the health care process, i. e. patients, family members, professionals of all kind, politicians, administrators and industry. The concept of quality of life has a strong unifying power in a field which tends to disintegrate. Since the publication of the first edition 1997 numerous contributions to the topic have appeared in the scientific literature these will be incorporated into the book, thus providing a thorough state of the art overview of this important public health topic.
The importance of a patients quality of life is increasingly being recognised in all areas of medicine and health sciences. Many patients suffering from mental disorders will require long-term management which means that quality of life becomes an even more important consideration. The second edition of this landmark title has been extensively revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field. Provides a state of the art overview of this important public health topic. Authored by well-known experts in their field Incorporates new material on the latest quality of life instruments, quality of life in addiction and the design of drug trials.
The Cochrane Collaboration have a QoL methods group. Perhaps we can form some kind of link or association. The first edition was translated into Japanese, Spanish and Italian. We have interest in Polish and Egyptian editions as well pending a new edition. Five years after publication, the first edition continues to sell, albeit in small quantities. This is a good indication of the continued/increasing demand for material synthesizing the growing body of primary literature.
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