Quantifying Quality of Life : Incorporating Daily Life into Medicine
- Author
- Katarzyna Wac, Sharon Wulfovich
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Publisher
- Springer
- Language
- English
- Document Type
- Book
- Faculty / Subject Heading
- Pharmacy
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Presents the rise of technology-enabled methods and tools for objective, quantitative assessment of Quality of Life (QoL), while following the WHOQOL model. It is an in-depth resource describing and examining state-of-the-art, minimally obtrusive, ubiquitous technologies. Highlighting the required factors for adoption and scaling of technology-enabled methods and tools for QoL assessment, it also describes how these technologies can be leveraged for behavior change, disease prevention, health management and long-term QoL enhancement in populations at large.
Subject: Medicine / Health Informatics / Quality of Life Research / Bioinformatics / Computational Biology / Quality of life / Behaviour Informatics / Self-esteem / Mobility / Physical environment