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Quality of Life during Menopause

How do we define quality of life?. * Quality of life Index (QLI) A product of the interplay among social, health, economic and environmental condition which affect human and social development *std. definition. What is the purpose of QoLI ?. To provide a tool for the comm

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Quality of Life during Menopause

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    1. Quality of Life during Menopause Dr. Amit Sengupta MBBS, MD, Ph.D. MUMBAI-INDIA

    2. How do we define quality of life? * Quality of life Index (QLI) A product of the interplay among social, health, economic and environmental condition which affect human and social development *std. definition

    3. What is the purpose of QoLI ? To provide a tool for the community development which can be used to monitor key events that encompasses the social, health, environmental, economic dimension of the quality of life

    4. Can menopause be a key event? Yes, any defined state in health or disease that potentially affects the human physiology or psychology during the entire life span can be a key event. Physiological events e.g., adolescence, menarche, pregnancy, menopause, senility/aging etc, Pathological events e.g., Diabetes, cancer, hypertension etc

    5. Significance of menopause Menopause basically signifies overall status of middle aged women passing through a particular biological event We need menopause- QoLI as a tool to understand, assess, improve their status before, during and after the event

    6. Menopause- present status Menopause (? Aging in India) was believed to be the beginning of the end, Now it is the beginning of a new phase (Middle age) of successful aging in urban India

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