The Quality of Life in Glasgow's East End

Kennie, Agnes T.; Arnott, Marion M.

doi:10.1093/ageing/2.1.46

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“…The 1948 WHO definition of health (a state of complete physical, mental and social well‐being) had already highlighted the importance of adding a social function dimension to those of physical and emotional functioning when considering health in the round. Indeed, there seemed a universe of human needs and attributes that could be included in any psychosocial domain of health including self‐esteem (Schwartz 1975), loneliness (Plutchnik et al 1975), personal adjustment (Carp 1975), adequate heating and purpose of living (Kennie and Arnott 1973), hobbies and recreation (Dempsey et al 1975), and sexual activity and lifestyle (Levy and Wynbrandt 1975). This focus on psychosocial life as an important component of health further reinforced the significance of distal symptoms, increasingly distanced from the patho‐physiological underpinnings of traditional clinical markers of disease.…”

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Health‐related quality of life and the transformation of symptoms

Armstrong

Lilford

Ogden

et al. 2007

Sociology Health & Illness

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This paper traces the development of health-related Quality of Life instruments over the last half century. It identifies the emergence of key components of quality of life measurement in other health status questionnaires between about 1950 and 1980 and their formalisation in Quality of Life instruments in the mid 1980s. The common developmental thread that linked these Quality of Life instruments and their precursors was the identification of 'distal symptoms' that represented the impact of illness beyond its immediate bodily manifestations. The measurement of distal symptoms through Quality of Life instruments also served to detach symptoms from their customary patho-physiological referent. Other contemporary examples of these free-floating symptoms reinforce the argument that the nature and meaning of symptoms has been transformed over recent decades.

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