About Us

International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) is an international society whose purpose are to promote and encourage research in the field of quality-of-life (QOL) studies. Specifically, the general objectives of the Society are:

• To provide an organization through which all academic and professional researchers interested in QOL studies may coordinate their efforts to advance the field of QOL studies within various disciplines.

• To assume leadership in academic circles (and/or establish guidelines) for an objective and scientific appraisal of the impact of products, programs, services, organizations, and/or institutions on the QOL of society and selected groups (e.g., populations segments, communities, countries).

• To stimulate interdisciplinary research in QOL studies within managerial (policy), behavioral, social, medical, and environmental sciences.

• To develop closer liaisons across academic disciplines such as marketing, management, economics, sociology, psychology, communications, political science, hospitality, housing, education, public administration, health care, environmental sciences, medical sciences, and others where QOL research is being pursued.

• To encourage closer cooperation among scholars engaged in QOL studies in developing better measures and methods of QOL for various groups (at various levels of analyses) and better QOL intervention strategies and policies.

• To develop closer liaisons with other organizations associated with QOL studies to help develop a network of QOL researchers and organizations world-wide.

• To play a role of a social change agent to bring about policies to foster QOL of various segments of society based on solid scientific study of QOL.

International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS)
1800 Kraft Drive, Suite 111
Blacksburg, Virginia 24060-6351, USA
540.961.4162 (fax)
isqols@vt.edu
http://www.isqols.org

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Comments and Questions: isqols@vt.edu
Last updated - January 2009