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Principles of Holistic Medicine: Global Quality of Life - Theory, Research and Methodology

by Isack Kandel, Joav Merrick and Soren Ventegodt; co-published with Hippocrates Scientific Publications

262 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-3048; ISBN 1-4120-8050-9; US$27.95, C$32.14, EUR22.96, £16.07

Based on work done in Denmark we developed several new questionnaires to measure the global quality of life in population surveys.

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About the Book

This book is published by Hippocrates Scientific Publications, New Hyde Park, New York and distributed by Trafford Publishing, Victoria, BC, Canada.

In concurrence with the Danish Quality of Life Survey of 10,000 residents, theories and research methods were developed through the last decade by the Quality of Life Research Center in Copenhagen. The methodological improvement and research peaked with the development of new questionnaires for generic measuring of the global quality of life (QOL), like SCREENQOL, SEQOL, QOL-5 and QOL-1. In this book you will find:

• Theories of quality of life, needs, meaning of life, existence and sexuality
• Methodology for measuring quality of life
• Global generic quality of life questionnaires
• Reflections
• Publications on quality of life during 1994-2005

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About the Authors

Søren Ventegodt, MD, born 1961 in Denmark is the director of the Nordic School of Holistic Health and Quality of Life Research Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also responsible for a Clinical Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine in Copenhagen and used as a popular speaker throughout Scandinavia. He has published numerous scientific or popular articles and a number of books on holistic medicine, quality of life and quality of working life. His most important scientific contributions are the comprehensive SEQOL questionnaire, the very short QOL5 questionnaire, the integrated QOL theory, the holistic process theory, the life mission theory, and the ongoing Danish Quality of Life Research Survey, 1991-94 in cooperation with the University Hospital of Copenhagen and the late professor of pediatrics, Bengt Zachau-Christiansen, MD, PhD.
E-Mail: ventegodt@livskvalitet.org
Website: www.livskvalitet.org/.

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Isack Kandel, MA, PhD, born 1944 in Bogata, Columbia is senior lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Behavioral Sciences, the Academic College of Judea and Samaria, Ariel, Israel. During the period 1985-93 he served as the director of the Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, Israel.
E-mail: kandelii@zahav.net.il.

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Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc, born in 1950 in Denmark is professor of child health and human development affiliated with the Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Aging, Zusman Child Development Center, Division of Pediatrics and Community Health at the Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, the medical director of the Division for Mental Retardation, Ministry of Social Affairs, Jerusalem, the founder and director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Numerous publications in the field of child health and human development, rehabilitation, intellectual disability, disability, health, welfare, abuse, advocacy, quality of life and prevention. Received the Peter Sabroe Child Award for outstanding work on behalf of Danish Children in 1985 and the International LEGO-Prize ("The Children's Nobel Prize") for an extraordinary contribution towards improvement in child welfare and well-being in 1987.
E-Mail: jmerrick@internet-zahav.net.
Website: www.nichd-israel.com.

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Excerpts

Caroline Free points to an issue of extreme importance in her editorial "Advice about sexual health for young people" in the British Medical Journal. Combining the fact that more that a quarter of young people are sexually active before they are 16 years of age, that one in ten suffer from severe sexual problems and half of them from minor sexual problems, the need for counselling and supporting the teenager in the sexual area is obvious.

Sexuality remains the biggest taboo in society and in the medical community this taboo is the constant fear of loosing the license, if the physician is accused of overstepping bounderies. The development in most western societies has for decades been towards a more open attitude towards sexuality and pornography with an earlier sexual debut, that today in the Nordic countries, England and USA find teenagers aged only 13, 14 and 15 years highly sexually active and often much more experimental than their parents have ever been.

From our clinical experience, sexual problems are almost always both in the young teenager and in the young adult related to existential and emotional problems. Therefore a holistic approach seems appropriate focusing at the same time both on the physical, emotional and existential aspects of the sexual problems. Often solving the existential problems causing the sexual inadequacy is the key to a permanent solution. This means that an open and honest dialog with a non-judging and accepting attitude can benefit the teenager for life. Many or maybe most sexual problems can simply be prevented, if the physician takes time to give thorough counselling and even sexological treatment to the teenager, when needed.

The conversation is so far the most important tool for helping the teenager, educating him or her in the fundamental dimensions of existence and sexuality and the correspondence between these dimensions. What is so desperately needed by the physician is the words, structure and understanding of both sexuality and the existence, so he can educate the teenager, who more that anything needs understanding.

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