Quality of life (healthcare)

The Economist Intelligence Unit's quality-of-life index, 2005
  8.000–8.999
  7.000–7.999
  6.000–6.999
  5.000–5.999
  4.000–4.999
  3.000–3.999
  No Data

In general, quality of life (QoL or QOL) is the perceived quality of an individual's daily life, that is, an assessment of their well-being or lack thereof. This includes all emotional, social and physical aspects of the individual's life. In health care, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an assessment of how the individual's well-being may be affected over time by a disease, disability or disorder.[1][2]

  1. ^ CDC - Concept - Health-Related Quality of Life
  2. ^ Bottomley A (April 2002). "The cancer patient and quality of life". The Oncologist. 7 (2): 120–5. doi:10.1634/theoncologist.7-2-120. PMID 11961195. S2CID 20903110.