Life Quality Outcomes in Children and Young People with Neurological and Developmental Conditions: Concepts, Evidence and Practice

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Title: Life Quality Outcomes in Children and Young People with Neurological and Developmental Conditions: Concepts, Evidence and Practice
Description: Health care professionals need to understand their patients'views of their condition and its effects on their health and well-being. This book builds on the World Health Organization's concepts of ‘health', ‘functioning'and ‘quality of life'for young people with neurodisabilities: it emphasises the importance of engaging with patients in the identification of both treatment goals and their evaluation. Uniquely, it enables health care professionals to find critically reviewed outcomes -related information. The authors are leaders in their respective research fields and discuss theory, concepts, and evidence, and how these are applied in clinical settings and research applications.
Authors: Gabriel M Ronen, Peter L Rosenbaum
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Developmentally disabled children
Categories: HEALTH & FITNESS / Children & Adolescents, MEDICAL / Pediatrics
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:Health care professionals need to understand their patients'views of their condition and its effects on their health and well-being. This book builds on the World Health Organization's concepts of ‘health', ‘functioning'and ‘quality of life'for young people with neurodisabilities: it emphasises the importance of engaging with patients in the identification of both treatment goals and their evaluation. Uniquely, it enables health care professionals to find critically reviewed outcomes -related information. The authors are leaders in their respective research fields and discuss theory, concepts, and evidence, and how these are applied in clinical settings and research applications.
ISBN:9781908316585
9781908316608
9781908316615