Quality of Life is an area of study that has attracted an ever increasing amount of interest over the past two decades, particularly in the areas of health, rehabilitation, disabilities studies, and social services, but also in medicine, education, and others. http://www.utoronto.ca/qol/
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Consumer-Based Quality of Life Assessment: The Maryland Ask Me! Project -2004 — The development of a model for enhancing social inclusion, personal development, and self-determination was described. Service and personal characteristics relating to quality of life as well as some ways the results can be used for program enhancement are discussed.
From Increasing Poverty to Societal Disintegration: Economic Inequality and the Future Health of Canada -1999 — One by-product of increasing economic inequality in Canada has been increasing poverty, since not surprisingly, a society that tolerates high levels of economic inequality also tends to have higher levels of poverty.
Government policies as a threat to health: Two Toronto Community Quality of Life Studies -2000
Handbook on Quality of Life for Human Service Practitioners -Robert L. Schalock, PhD + Miguel Angel Verdugo Alonso, PhD -2002 — Excerpt: Book is available at http://bookstore.aaidd.org/BookDetail.aspx?bid=17
Health-Related Quality of Life Measures — Standardized health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures are critical for a number of purposes, including evaluating the nation’s progress in achieving population health goals, assessing health disparities across different segments of the population, and measuring the effectiveness of health care interventions for age-related diseases.
Measuring quality of life.-the WHOQOL -1997 — The core WHOQOL instruments can assess quality of life in a variety of situations and population groups.
Predicting the Relative Efficacy of Verbal, Pictorial, and Tangible Stimuli for Assessing Preferences of Leisure Activities -2005 — The results suggest that choice stimulus modalities in preference assessment of leisure activities need to be matched to the discrimination skills of persons with developmental disabilities.
ProQOL Measure - Professional Quality of Life — The ProQOL is the most commonly used measure of the negative and positive affects of helping others who experience suffering and trauma. The ProQOL has sub-scales for compassion satisfaction, burnout and compassion fatigue. [available free at this site]
The Quality of Life Research Unit,University of Toronto (Canada) — The study of Quality of Life is an examination of influences upon the goodness and meaning in life, as well as people's happiness and well-being. From our perspective, the ultimate goal of quality of life study and its subsequent applications is to enable people to live quality lives -- lives that are both meaningful and enjoyed.
Towards a Theory of Community Quality of Life Part I: Riverdale, Toronto, Canada -1998 — Community members, service providers, and elected representatives within a downtown Toronto community considered factors affecting local quality of life... Based on these findings a community model of quality of life was constructed and its relation to the social capital literature was considered.
Write-Ups From The Riverdale Community Quality Of Life Study -1996 — This report contains the information provided by community members, service providers, and elected representatives