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Informationen zum Autor Francis Guillemin is epidemiologist and rheumatologist, professor of public health, Director of the APEMAC Research unit on Chronic diseases, perceived health and adaptation processes, of the University of Lorraine, Nancy, France. Alain Leplège, is professor at Paris Diderot University, France, specialized in health service research and outcome measurement, methodology and epistemology . Serge Briançon is epidemiologist, professor emeritus of public health, head of the School of Public Health (2001-2016) at Lorraine University, Nancy, France. Elisabeth Spitz is professor of health psychology at the University of Lorraine, Metz, France. Joël Coste is a rheumatologist, epidemiologist and historian of medicine, and professor at Paris Descartes University and Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France. Zusammenfassung This reference will bring readers up to date with chronic disease research and treatment practices. It focuses on health-related quality of life and patient perception of the impact of the diseases and health intervention, as well as psychological adaptation to the disease. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Concepts and models Chapter 1. Introduction Lennart Nordenfeldt Chapter 2. Chronic disease in medicine: past, present and possible future of a problematic concept. Joël Coste Chapter 3. Conceptual Approaches to Perceived Quality of Life. Donald L. Patrick Chapter 4. ICF and other conceptual models: Rethinking the role of context and implications for assessing health. Elizabeth M. Badley Chapter 5. Psychological adjustment to chronic disease Annette L. Stanton, Michael A. Hoyt Part II: Measurement Chapter 6. Contemporary perspectives on the epistemology of measurement in the social sciences Alain Leplège Chapter 7. Advances in social measurement: A Rasch measurement theory. David Andrich Chapter 8. A matter of convergence: Classical and modern approaches to scale development. Alan Tennant Chapter 9. Item generation and construction of questionnaires. Nina Tamm, Janine Devine, Matthias Rose Chapter 10. Alternative approaches to questionnaires in measuring heath concepts. The example of measuring how patient actually performs activities in daily life. Wilfred F. Peter, Francis Guillemin, Caroline B. Terwee Part III:. Interpretation of perceived health data Chapter 11. Introduction Dorcas Beaton Chapter 12. Chronic conditions, Disability and Perceived health: Empirical support of a conceptual model. Jordi Alonso, Carlos G. Forero, Núria D. Adroher, Gemma Vilagut, on behalf of the World Mental Health (WMH) Consortium Chapter 13. Social heterogeneity in self-reported health status and the measurement of inequalities in health Florence Jusot, Sandy Tubeuf, Marion Devaux, Catherine Sermet Chapter 14. Social heterogeneity of perceived health Thierry Lang, Cyrille Delpierre, Michele Kelly-Irving Chapter 15. The complexity of interpreting changes observed over time in Health-Related Quality of Life: a short overview of 15 years of research on response shift theory Antoine Vanier, Bruno Falissard, Véronique Sébille, Jean-Benoit Hardouin Chapter 16. Interpretation of perceived health data in specific disorders. Anne-Christine.Rat, Jacques Pouchot Part IV: Knowledge and decision Chapter 17. Perceived individual freedom and collectively provided care. Emmanuel Picavet Chapter 18. Patient-reported outcomes: Clinical applications in t...
