Now Available from Sage Publications

Quality of Life in Health Promotion and Rehabilitation:
Conceptual Approaches, Issues, and Applications (R. Renwick, I.
Brown, & M. Nagler, eds.) is now available from Sage
Publications. The volume examines conceptual frameworks for
understanding and discussing quality of life and issues in
employing the concept in research, service provision, and policy
development for persons with and without disabilities.

The first volume to present a coherent picture and introduce a
specific conceptual framework, Quality of Life in Health
Promotion and Rehabilitation convincingly argues for quality of
life as the common concept linking health promotion and
rehabilitation. Although quality of life issues are receiving
increased attention from both researchers and service providers
in the health arena, no other volume deals with the quality of
life in terms of health promotion and rehabilitation. Following
an introduction to key themes and concepts, contributors
representing a broad spectrum of disciplines and perspectives
review the conceptual basis for understanding and discussing the
quality of life. This volume discusses current social issues such
as HIV and homelessness, abilities and disabilities such as
communication disorders and the aging process, and major life
activities such as employment and leisure as they relate to the
quality of life. Various populations, including adolescents, the
elderly, the homeless, and persons with AIDS, are represented.
Finally, key themes are deliberated in terms of their
implications for future conceptualization, research, practice,
and policy development in health promotion and rehabilitation.

Quality of Life in Health Promotion and Rehabilitation is
essential reading for students, researchers, and practitioners in
a wide variety of disciplines including health promotion,
rehabilitation, occupational therapy, nursing, physical therapy,
psychology, and public health.

ABRIDGED CONTENTS: I. Quality of Life in Health Promotion and
Rehabilitation / II. Conceptual Approaches to Quality of Life /
III. Quality of Life in Health Promotion and Rehabilitation: Some
Critical Issues / IV. Applications of Quality of Life in Health
Promotion and Rehabilitation / V. Future Directions

CONTRIBUTORS: M. Bach, J. D. Baker, I. Brown, R. Brown, H. Day,
R. Draper, D. Felce, A. Fine, J. Friedland, S. Friefeld, S.
Jankey, R. Labonte, D. Mason, B. McCreary, E. McPhail, M. Nagler,
B. O'Keefe, H. Ouellette-Kuntz, T. Parmenter, J. Perry, J.
Raeburn, D. Raphael, R. Renwick, M. Rioux, I. Rootman, R.
Schalock, M. Shain

1996 (Mar) / 437 pages/ $55.00 (h) (59133) / $24.95 (p) (59141)

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