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There is now an understanding that health involves more than the absence of disease and that measuring health includes a much wider spectrum of considerations than morbidity alone. This is reflected in the headings of the main chapters of a recent book, Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires (1): “Functional Disability and Handicap,” “Psychological Well-Being,” “Social Health,” Quality of Life and Life Satisfaction,” Pain Measurements,” and “General Health Measurements.”
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Bridges-Webb, C., Barrand, J. (1990). Functional Status Assessment in Relation to Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine. In: Functional Status Measurement in Primary Care. Frontiers of Primary Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8977-4_6
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