Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents Vol. 1: Part 1 : Instruments and methodological aspects -- Part 1.1 : Instruments used in the assessment of disease impact -- The international classification of functioning, disability and health : a tool to classify and measure functioning -- The Keele assessment of participation -- The global person generated index -- The total illness burden index -- The EQ-5D health-related quality of life questionnaire -- The University of Washington quality of life scale -- Comparison of three quality of life questionnaires in urinary incontinence -- Overview of instruments used to assess quality of life in dentistry -- SQOR-V : a patient reported outcome specifically dedicated to chronic venous disorders -- The uniscale assessment of quality of life : applications to oncology -- The bone metastases quality of life questionnaire -- The impact of weight on quality of life questionnaire -- The quality in later life questionnaire -- The MacDQOL individualized measure of the impact of macular disease on quality of life -- Development and assessment of Chinese general quality of life instrument -- The Japanese version of the EORTC quality of life questionnaire -- Part 1.2 : Contemporary issues in assessment -- Calculating QALYs and DALYs : methods and applications to fatal and non-fatal conditions -- Accuracy of death certifications and the implications for studying disease burdens -- Completeness and accuracy of death dates and the implications for studying disease burdens : focus on alternative data sources -- Utility scores for comorbid conditions : methodological issues and advances -- Subjective quality of life measures -- general principles and concepts -- Standard expected years of life lost as a measure of disease burden : an investigation of its presentation, meaning and interpretation -- Part 2 : Disease burdens and economic impacts -- Part 2.1 : General aspects, geographical aspects pathologies and metabolic disorders -- Health-adjusted life expectancy : concepts and estimates -- Individual disability-adjusted life year : a summary health outcome indicator used for prospective studies -- Integration of quality of life and survival for comparative risk/outcome assessment in healthcare industry -- Disability-adjusted life years in occupational injuries and accidents -- The income-associated burden of disease in the United States -- Financial burdens and disability-adjusted life years in Los Angeles county -- Burden of disease between two time frames : Mexico perspectives -- East/west differences in health in Europe : rates, expectancies and DALYs -- The burden of neglected diseases in developing countries -- The burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases in developing countries -- Economic evaluation of health interventions : Tanzania perspectives -- The burden of disease and injury in Serbia -- Disease burdens and disability-adjusted life years in aboriginal and non-aboriginal populations -- The relationship between the National Health Insurance expenditures and the burden of disease measures in the Iran -- The burden of maternal mortality and morbidity in the Unites States and worldwide -- The financial implications of pancreas transplant complications -- The use of pharmacoepidemiological databases to assess disease burdens : application to diabetes -- Years of life lost due to air pollution in Switzerland : a dynamic exposure-response model -- Quantification of deaths and DALYs due to chronic exposure to arsenic in groundwaters utilized for drinking, cooking and irrigation of food-crops -- Part 2.2 : Early life stages and aging -- Disability-adjusted life years in children and adolescents in Europe -- Disease burden of diarrheal and respiratory disorders in children : Hong Kong perspectives -- Burden of disease in elderly Mexican population.

Contents Vol. 2 : Part 2.3 : Cancer -- Years of life lost from cancer and applications to research funding -- Worldwide burden of gynecological cancer -- Years of life lost from long, stomach, liver and cervical cancers : an evaluation of the top cancer killers -- Burden of cancer in Serbia -- The disease burden of mastectomy : Turkish perspective and impact on the patient and family -- The burden of Chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting on patient's daily lives : Italian perspectives -- Part 2.4 : Cardiac, vascular, pulmonary and dietary -- Atherosclerotic burden and mortality -- Burden of Cardiovascular diseases among aboriginal and Torres strait Islander peoples : mortality, hospitalization and risk factors -- Burden of ischemic heart diseases in Serbia -- Burden of cerebrovascular diseases (stroke) in Serbia -- DALYs and public health programs for stroke : Australian perspectives -- Burden of stroke : Indian perspective -- Disability-adjusted life years, years of life lived with disability, and years of life lost in stroke : Italian perspective -- Burden of ischemic stroke and benefits of stroke unit care and thrombolytic therapy -- Economic burden of complications during percutaneous coronary intervention -- Features of Mediterranean diet and burden of cardiovascular disease -- Obesity's final toll : influence on mortality rate, attributable deaths, years of life lost and population life expectancy -- Financial impact of obesity -- Burden of disease attributable to obesity and overweight : Korean focus -- Economic burden of the components of the metabolic syndrome -- Zinc deficiency and DALYs in India : impact assessment and economic analyses -- Part 2.5 : Immune disorders, viral bacterial, microbiological, infectious and parasitic diseases -- The impact of infectious diseases of the development of Africa -- Measuring the global burden of tuberculosis -- Burden of tuberculosis : Serbian perspectives -- DALYs and diarrhea -- The burden of rotavirus acute gastroenteritis in Europe -- The economic burden of rotavirus diarrhea : Taiwan perspectives -- Disease burden of dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever -- Cost-effectiveness of dengue vaccine in Southeast Asia and Panama : preliminary estimates -- Burden of sexually transmitted Chlamydia trachomatis infections -- Disease burden from Group A Neisseria meningitidis meningitis in hyperendemic countries of the African meningitis belt -- DALYs in chronic hepatitis C : a Paneuropean perspective -- Economics and vaccines -- Economic costs and disability-adjusted life years in polio eradication : a long-run global perspective -- Financial burdens and disability-adjusted life years in Echinococcosis -- Measuring Japanese encephalitis (JE) disease burden in Asia -- Pandemic Influenza : Potential contribution to disease burden -- Prophylaxis of healthcare workers in an influenza pandemic -- The Burden of human African trypanosomiasis -- The economic burden of malaria in Nigeria and willingness to pay -- Measurement of adverse health burden related to sexual behavior.

Contents Vol. 3: Part 2.6 : Psychosocial, social, behavioural, psychiatric, neurological and addictions -- Global burden of mental health -- Disease burden and disability-adjusted life years due to schizophrenia and psychotic disorders -- The societal costs of anxiety and mood disorders : an epidemiological perspective -- Estimating the disease burden of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder in United States veterans and military service members -- Estimating the disease burden of seasonal affective disorder -- The disease burden of suicide : conceptual challenges and measurement standards -- The disease burden due to epilepsy in rural China -- Alcohol consumption and burden of disease : Germany and Switzerland -- Alcoholic beverage preference, morbidity and mortality -- Burden of disease due to alcohol and alcohol related research -- Years life lost due to smoking : a Korean focus -- The health and economic consequences of smoking and smoking cessation interventions : the Dutch perspective -- Life years saved, quality-adjusted life years saved and cost-effectiveness of a school-based tobacco prevention program -- Part 2.7 : Sensory and musculoskeletal -- Burden of disease and years lived with disability associated with musculoskeletal pain -- Financial burdens and disability-adjusted life years in loss of vision due to trachoma -- The economic burden of rheumatoid arthritis : Asia/Thailand perspective -- Part 3 : Quality of life measures and indexes -- Part 3.1 : General aspects, pathologies and metabolic disorders -- Quality of life-related concepts : theoretical and practical issues -- Alternative therapies and quality of life -- Leisure-time physical activity and quality of life -- Spa therapy and quality of life -- Health-related quality of life and prioritization strategies in waiting lists : Spanish aspects -- Hirsutism and quality of life -- Oral health-related quality of life -- Quality of life issues in chronic fatigue syndrome -- Hemoglobin fluctuations and correlation with quality of life and fatigue -- Anemia and quality of life : association with diagnosis and treatment of anemias -- Quality of life with hemophilia -- Quality of life in amenorrhea and oligomenorrhea -- Quality of life among Japanese oral contraceptive users -- Premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder : issues of quality of life, stress and exercise -- Quality of life and infertility -- Speech determines quality of life following total laryngectomy : the emperors new voice? -- Health-related quality of life of living kidney donors -- Quality of life and tryptophan degradation -- L-Carnitine supplementation on quality of life and other health measures -- Quality of life among diabetic subjects : Indian perspectives -- Healthy lifestyle habits and health-related quality of life in diabetes -- Quality of life in patients with diabetic foot ulcers -- Obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome and quality of life -- Quality of life and pruritus -- Quality of life and costs of atopic dermatitis -- Quality of life in Crohn's disease -- Impact of self-perceived bothersomeness, quality of life and overactive bladder -- Quality of life in men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome -- Quality of life in kidney transplantation -- Quality of life in liver cirrhosis.

Contents Vol. 4: Part 3.2 Surgical -- Quality of life and functional outcome in pediatric patients requiring surgery : Italian perspectives -- Breast reduction surgery and quality of life and clinical outcomes -- Quality of life and postoperative anesthesia in gastrointestinal surgery -- Health-related quality of life after surgery for Crohn's disease -- Postoperative quality of life assessment in the over 80's after cardiac surgery -- Quality of life and financial measures in surgical and non-surgical treatments in emphysema -- Quality of life after revascularization and major amputation for lower extremity arterial disease -- Quality of life after laser surgery for eye disorders -- Part 3.3 : Early life stages and aging -- Intrauterine growth restriction and later quality of life -- Assessment of quality of life during pregnancy and in the postnatal period -- Generic quality of life measures for children and adolescents -- Quality of life in children with cerebral palsy -- Quality of life measures in children with cancer -- Quality of life in healthy and chronically ill Icelandic children : agreement between child's self-report and parents' proxy-report -- Health-related quality of life in obese children and adolescents -- Implementing interventions to enhance quality of life in overweight children and adolescents -- Adolescent quality of life in Australia -- Health-related quality of life among university students -- The quality of life and the impact of interventions on the health outcomes of looked after and accommodated young people -- Quality of life measures during menopause -- Low testosterone level in men and quality of life -- Measuring quality of life in macular degeneration -- Quality of life measures in the elderly and later life -- Cochlear implant outcomes and quality of life in the elderly -- Back pain and quality of life in elderly women -- Measuring quality of life at the end of life -- Quality of life measures in the elderly and the role of social support in elderly Chinese -- Quality of life in elderly dyspnea patients -- Quality of life and age urinary incontinence severity : Turkish perspectives -- Quality of life measures in elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease : Japanese perspectives -- Part 3.4 : Cancer -- Chemotherapy for brain metastasis and quality of life -- Quality of life measures in patients with esophageal cancer -- Quality of life measures in head and neck cancer -- Quality of life in breast cancer patients : an overview of the literature -- Quality of life with localized prostate cancer : Japanese perspectives -- Quality of life in men undergoing radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer -- Myeloproliferative disorders and the chronic leukemias : symptom burden and impact in quality of life -- Quality of life in advanced renal cell carcinoma : effect of treatment with cytokine therapy and targeted agents -- Quality of life for patients receiving cancer chemotherapy : the Japanese perspective -- Quality of life measures in caregivers of patients with cancer -- Cancer : influence of nutrition on quality of life.

Contents Vol. 5: Part 3.5 : Cardiovascular and pulmonary -- Quality of life, drugs and diet in hypertensive patients -- Measurement issues in the assessment of quality of life in patients with coronary heart disease -- Influence of age, sex and episode recurrence on quality of life in atrial fibrillation -- Quality of life measures in acute coronary syndromes : the evaluation of predictors in this field of research -- Home mechanical ventilation and quality of life measures -- Quality of life in children with asthma -- Efficacy of environmental interventions on asthma-related quality of life -- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung function and quality of life in adult Chinese -- Part 3.6 : Dietary and nutritional -- Health-related quality of life in eating disorders -- Weight-related stigmatization : effects on the quality of life of obese adolescents -- Malnutrition in chronic kidney disease and relationship to quality of life -- Nutrition and quality of life in hemodialysis -- the impact of nutritional status and quality of life on morbidity and mortality in hemodialysis patients -- Nutritional wasting in cancer and quality of life : the value of early individualized nutritional counseling -- Part 3.7 : Immune disorders, viral, bacterial, microbiological, infectious and parasitic diseases -- Quality of life measures in HIV low income women : how to use quality of life to design, implement and evaluate programs -- Quality of life and financial measures in HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa -- Quality of life in immune thrombocytopenic purpura : China perspectives -- Health-related quality of life in adults with systemic lupus erythematosus -- Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of health-related quality of life assessment tools : a Brazilian perspective on patients with systemic lupus erythematosus -- Cognitive function, mood and health-related quality of life in hepatitis C virus-infected individuals -- Quality of life in urticaria -- Quality of life in group-based intervention program in inflammatory bowel disease -- Part 3.8 : Psychosocial, social, behavioural, psychiatric, neurological and addictions -- Housing and quality of life : an ecological perspective -- Quality of life of urban slum residents -- Quality of life and chronic illness among refugee populations -- Health-related quality of life in prisoners -- Quality of life in war veterans -- Post-traumatic stress disorder and quality of life in women -- Relation between sexuality and health-related quality of life -- The correlations between the presence of comorbidities, psychological distress and health-related quality of life -- Quality of life and stigma -- Depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life -- Quality of life and depression in patient-giver scenarios : reference to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Quality of life and depression in police officers : perspectives from Chinese in Taiwan -- Health-related quality of life in obsessive-compulsive disorder subjects and their relatives (1) : overview -- Health-related quality of life in obsessive-compulsive disorder subjects and their relatives (2) : a systematic review and original data of assessment of quality of life measured by WHOQOL-BREF -- Quality of life in bipolar disorder -- Issues in quality of life assessment in schizophrenia -- Health-related quality of life in parents of children with asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism -- Quality of life and neuropsychological symptoms in primary hyperparathyroidism -- Children with cerebral palsy, psychometric analysis and quality of life -- Quality of life in dementia patients and their proxies : a narrative review of the concept and measurement scales.

Contents Vol. 6: Quality of life and drug abuse -- Quality of life in HIV positive injecting drug users -- Quality of life measurement and alcoholism : a nursing perspective -- Quality of life and psychiatric symptomatology in alcohol detoxification -- Quality of life in patients affected by multiple sclerosis : a systematic review -- Quality of life in people with lower-limb amputation -- Quality of life in spinal cord injury -- Quality of life in sporadic adult-onset ataxia -- Quality of life in systemic sclerosis -- Quality of life in toenail onychomycosis -- Part 3.9 : Sensory, musculoskeletal and exercise -- Quality of life measures in the deaf -- Hearing aids and quality of life -- Cochlear implantation and quality of life in deafness -- Quality of life measures for the visually impaired : Sub-Sahara Africa -- Health-related quality of life in pain medicine : a review of theory and practice -- Relationship between pain and quality of life -- Quality of life in ankylosing spondylitis and undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy : Chinese perspectives -- Quality of life measures in fibromyalgia -- Quality of life and low back pain -- Disease burden, quality of life and other measures in polymyalgia rheumatica -- Health-related quality of life in movement disorders -- Quality of life measures in lower limb Ischaemia -- Quality of life among primary caregivers of rheumatic patients -- a South American experience -- Quality of life in conservatively treated lumbar disc disease -- Quality of life and stress in wheelchair-users -- Exercise and quality of life in menopause -- Exercise and quality of life in COPD -- Glossary -- Index.