La Calidad de Vida en la salud: un análisis conceptual
Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: The concept of Health-related Quality of Life is used profusely, but there is not an agreed and satisfactory definition. We have carried out a historical overview of this concept that enabled us to put in into a context, emphasizing the circumstances that have allowed its development: changes in the concept of health, distinction between quantity and quality of life, and limitations of traditional health indicators. We have analyzed the different domains in which the concept 1s divided, and revised the problems its evaluation faces. Furthermore, we have proposed a continuum in which these concept definitions would be gathered, going across a wide range from an objective and naturalistic focus to an hermeneutic and subjective one. Finally, we think it is necessary to continue progressing in terns of its conceptual delimitation and to keep a higher rigour in its use
Source: Clínica y Salud
Institution: Universidad de Sevilla
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W100747720