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Principles of Holistic Medicine: Philosophy behind Quality of Life
Principles of Holistic Medicine: Quality of Life And Health
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Principles of Holistic Medicine
Philosophy behind Quality of Life
By Søren Ventegodt, Isack Kandel and Joav Merrick
This book is published by Hippocrates Scientific Publications, New Hyde Park, New York and distributed by Traford Publishing, Victoria, BC, Canada
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/
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
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
CONTACT:
Professor Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc
Specialist in Pediatrics, Child Health and Human Development
WORK:
Medical Director
Division for Mental Retardation
Ministry of Social Affairs
POBox 1260
IL-91012 Jerusalem, ISRAEL
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About the book:
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
Keywords
Quality of life, theory, research, methodology, meaning of life, Denmark
Brief description
Based on work done in Denmark we developed several new questionnaires to measure the global quality of life in population surveys.
Excerpts from the book
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. >>
Medical Science Monitor
Events in pregnancy, delivery and infancy and long-term effects on global quality of life. Results from the Copenhagen Perinatal Birth Cohort 1959-61.
Søren Ventegodt1ABCDEFG, Trine Flensborg-Madsen1CDEF, Niels Jørgen Andersen2DE and Joav Merrick3DEF
Author?s address: Professor Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc, POBox 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel, e-Mail: jmerrick@internet-zahav.net
A prospective study from the Copenhagen Perinatal Birth Cohort 1959-61 to study causal associations between factors occurring during pregnancy, birth and infancy and global quality of life (QOL) in adulthood 31-33 years later using two sets of questionnaires, one filled by physicians during pregnancy, birth and infancy and a validated, self-administered questionnaire on global quality of life (QOL) filled by the person 31-33 years later (7,222 people). Only few of the factors examined showed association with later QOL. Two main factors in pregnancy associated with a reduced QOL for the child 31-33 years later: mother?s smoking habits (2.7%) and mother?s medication, especially painkillers (15.3%) and different psychotropic drugs with association most prevalent early in pregnancy. The results obtained appears to disagree with previous reports that factors occurring during pregnancy, birth and infancy are highly important for the later quality of life of the adult child.
In collaboration with the Quality of Life Research Center in Copenhagen, the Norwegian School of Management, the Scandinavian Foundation for Holistic Medicine and Division of Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben Gurion University, we have just published a paper on research findings from the period 1991-2004 on quality of health, health and ability in Denmark:
Ventegodt S, Flensborg-Madsen T, Andersen NJ, Nielsen M, Morad M, Merrick J.
Global quality of life (QOL), health and ability are primarily determined by our consciousness. Research findings from Denmark 1991-2004.
Social Indicator Research 2005;71:87-122.
ABSTRACT
Objective: To explain the global quality of life (QOL) from 2,000 indicators representing all aspects of life.
Design and setting: Two cross sectional population studies, one prospective cohort study and one retrospective cohort study.
Participants: (1) Representative sample of 2,500 Danes (18-88 years), (2) 7,222 members of the Copenhagen Perinatal Birth Cohort 1959-61 (31-33 years), (3) 9,006 mothers and their 8,820 children born in Copenhagen 1959-1961, (4) 746 Danes (55-66 years).
Main outcome measures: Global QOL measured by SEQOL (self evaluation of quality of life) containing eight global QOL measures: Well-being, life-satisfaction, happiness, fulfilment of needs, experience of temporal and spatial domains, expression of life?s potentials and objective factors.
Results: 2,000 associations; strongest between QOL and health, ability, the personal philosophy of life, the relationships to oneself, the partner and friends; weakest between QOL and 1,000 early life factors, 1,000 life events and 100 objective factors like income.
Conclusions: Quality of life is associated with personal health and attitude towards life, rather than objective factors, life style, or life events. We conclude that quality of life can be developed independently and thus be used as medicine.
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