Quality-of-Life Research in Chinese, Western and Global Contexts (Social Indicators Research Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)Quality of life (QOL) research has become popular over the last decade or so. Making a search on "quality of life" at Medline/PubMed, when writing this review, revealed 74,415 entries with the first papers from the 1960s.
This book edited by Daniel TL Shek from the Social Welfare Practice and Research Centre of the Department of Social Work, Ying Keung Chan from the Department of Sociology and Paul SN Lee from the School of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University in Hong Kong, is an interesting book looking at the concept QOL from a holistic point of view. Of the 17 chapters, the first five are studies from Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark and the United States, while the rest are studies on QOL in Hong Kong.
This book is unique due to the global scope, QOL at different stages of the life span, the holistic and multidisciplinary approach and the different methodology used in the various studies.
This book will become an important source for both academics, researchers and students involved with the issue of QOL research both on a national and international level.
Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, [...]

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The majority of studies on the quality of life have been conducted in Western contexts and are based on Western participants. Comparatively speaking, there are only a few studies that have been conducted in different Chinese contexts. Also, there are fewer QOL studies based on children and adolescents, or studies that examine the relationship between QOL and economic disadvantage. In addition, more research is needed to address the methodological issues related to the assessment of quality of life.This volume is a constructive response to the challenges described above. It is the first book to cover research in Chinese, Western and global contexts in a single volume. It is a ground-breaking volume in which Chinese studies on the quality of life are collected. The book includes papers addressing family QOL, quality of life in adolescents experiencing economic disadvantage, and methodological issues in the assessment of QOL. It is written by researchers working in a variety of disciplines.

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