"Quality of Life: Biopsychosocial Perspectives" ed. by Floriana Irtelli, Federico Durbano, Simon George Taukeni

This book is a collection of chapters addressing various aspects of quality of life and health psychology from a biopsychosocial perspective. The book explores how health, climate, psychiatric diseases, and social conditions of specific geographical areas can impact quality of life.

Chapters cover crucial issues, both clinical and social. Starting with an analysis of the concept of quality of life as it is described by the World Health Organization, subsequent chapters of the book examine the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual issues related to the concept.

Contents
1. Quality of Life and Biopsychosocial Paradigm: A Narrative Review of the Concept and Specific Insights
2. Health Disparities at the Intersection of Gender and Race: Beyond Intersectionality Theory in Epidemiologic Research
3. Healthy Sexuality
4. Effects of Physical Exercise on the Quality of Life of Type 2 Diabetes Patients
5. Quality of Life and Menopause
6. Sport for the Subjective Dimensions of Quality of Life
7. Behavioral and Psychosocial Factors as Mediators of the Oral Health Impact on Adolescents Quality of Life
8. The Impacts of Parental Schizophrenia on the Psychosocial Well-Being of Offspring: A Systematic Review
9. Quality of Life from the South, Local Knowledge, Socio-Ecological Relationships, and Citizen Participation in Times of Global Climate Change
10. Services for Children with Disabilities and Their Families: The Impact on the Family’s Life Quality
11. Socioeconomic and Demographic Characteristics of Living Conditions of Elderly Quilombolas from Maranhão, Northeast Region, Brazil
12. Spirituality and Hansen’s Disease: Spirituality’ Conceptual Structure and Hansen’s Disease History - Part One
13. Spirituality and Hansen’s Disease: Spirituality’ Conceptual Structure and Hansen’s Disease History - Part Two