Title | Cancer, AIDS, and Quality of Life [electronic resource] / edited by Jay A. Levy, Claude Jasmin, Gabriel Bez |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1997 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9570-7 |
Descript | XIV, 198 p. online resource |
Cancer and AIDS as a Model for the Study of Quality of Life -- United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization -- Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) -- 1. Problems in Defining Quality of Life -- 2. How Does Basic Research in Cancer and AIDS Approach the Concern for Quality of Life? -- 3. The Evolution of Quality of Life -- 4. Quality of Care for Cancer and AIDS -- 5. Changing Our Metaphors to Put Quality of Life at the Center of Health Care -- 6. Uses of Information about Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with AIDS and Cancer -- 7. Improving the Quality of Life of Cancer Patients -- 8. How Does the Cost of Care Influence the Effectiveness of Health Care Delivery? -- 9. Future Issues in the Use of Health Status Assessment Measures in Clinical Settings -- 10. Quality of Life at the End Stages of Life -- 11. Quality of Life: The Experience of an Oncology Unit Functioning in a Rural Greek Area -- 12. Advocacy for Patients with Cancer Quality of Life Implications -- 13. Risk as Diagnosis: Implications for the Quality of Life -- 14. Quality of Life as a Major Determinant of Medical Decision-Making -- 15. Quality of Life at the End Stages of Life -- 16. Cancer, AIDS, and Quality of Life -- 17. Anguish and Suffering in the Face of the Hospital Organizational Pattern -- 18. Living Well in the Shadow of Death -- 19. Quality of Life: Cultural, Socio-Economic, and Geographic Perspectives -- 20. Quality of Life: Socio-Economic, Geographic, and Cultural Factors -- 21. Quality of Life: An Unsuitable Case for Measurement? -- 22. Quality of Life: Geographic and Cultural Differences -- 23. Cancer and Quality of Life: Social and Community Stakes -- 24. The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Developing Countries: The Dilemma of Quality of Life vs Quality of Care -- 25. Quality of Life: Some Implications of the Advances in Human Genome Research -- 26. Quality of Life in Cancer and AIDS: An Industry Perspective -- 27. Quality of Life, Value, and Price in Medicines to Treat Serious Disease -- Conclusion