Meet the editors

Jasneth Mullings, Ph.D., is a social epidemiologist in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. Her research focuses on the mental health effects of neighborhood structural and social processes and she serves as a strategic advisor to UrbanHealth360, global thought leaders in urban health.

Sage Arbor is a computational biologist whose research includes fields ranging from drug design, systems biology, and epigenetic database creation to fitness app development. His work spans a broad biomedical spectrum from drug design to clinical trial analysis, including being a medical school professor and researcher, project management of developers/analysts of globally distributed labs, electronic medical record data mining (SQL and

NoSQL), Python/pandas coding, data segmentation, 6σ improvement, pathway mapping, and computational drug design and synthesis. Having worked at multiple academic institutions (Duke, Marian University) and companies (e.g., Pfizer and Dupont), his research has been on both proprietary and open-access datasets for publication to the wider scientific community. His recent publication topics include quality of life modifiers, therapeutic interventions for Alzheimer's disease, bioethical versus religious standards, and scientific training in those deciding public policy.

Dr. Medhane Cumbay has extensive experience in cell surface receptor function as it relates to cellular signaling, elucidating drug-receptor interactions, neurodegenerative diseases, and drug development. He earned a BS in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Oregon State University in 1995. While working with multiple research groups at Oregon Health Sciences University between 1995 and 1998, Dr. Cumbay developed an interest in

neuroscience and neuropharmacology. This led him to pursue a doctoral degree at Purdue University, Indiana, where he earned a Ph.D. in Molecular Pharmacology in 2004. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stark Neuroscience Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine. He joined the faculty at Butler University, Indiana, in 2007, and the Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Indiana, in 2015.

Contents

**Section 1**

and Social Factors

of Life Years *by Sage Arbor*

**Section 2**

Cancer

**Preface XI**

Quality of Life Indicators and Measurements **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 21**

and Psychological Health **41**

**Chapter 3 43**

**Chapter 4 71**

**Chapter 5 83**

**Chapter 6 107**

Modifiers of Health-Related Quality of Life by Biological, Psychological

Ethical Issues Which Have Prevented the U.S. from Maximizing Quality

*by Jose Antonio Miron Canelo, Maria-Fernanda Lorenzo Gómez,* 

*Elena Iglesias De Sena and Luz Celia Fernández Martín*

Assessing Quality of Life in States of Chronic Diseases

*Michał Budzik and Andrzej Deptała*

with Diabetes Mellitus *by Bikila Regassa Feyisa*

*and Salvador Arias-Santiago*

in Children and Adults

Assessment of Pain, Acceptance of Illness, Adjustment to Life and Strategies of Coping with the Illness in Patients with Pancreatic

Predictors of Health-Related Quality of Life among Patients

Quality of Life in Patients with Skin Disease and Their Cohabitants

Psychological Intervention Based on Psychoneuroimmunology

*by Trinidad Montero-Vílchez, Manuel Sánchez-Díaz, Antonio Martínez-López* 

*by Margarita del Valle Chacin Fuenmayor and Josymar Chacin de Fernandez*

*by Urszula Religioni, Aleksandra Czerw, Anna M. Badowska-Kozakiewicz,* 
