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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

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