WHO Collaborating Center for Child and Adolescent Health Promotion

www.QLMed.org

• (in Italian only)

www.isoqol.org

• Quality of Life
  International Society of Quality of Life
  The scientific study of Quality of Life relevant to health and healthcare is the mission of the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL). The Society promotes the rigorous investigation of health-related quality of life measurement from conceptualization to application and practice. ISOQOL fosters the worldwide exchange of information through:
  * Scientific Publications,
  * International Conferences,
  * Educational Outreach, and Collaborative Support for HRQOL Initiatives.
  

www.catscreen.de

• Catscreen
  is a computer-assisted instrument to assess health-related quality of life in children and adolescents.

www.KIDSCREEN.org

• Screening for and Promotions of Health-Related Quality of Life in Children & Adolescents - a European Public Health Perspective
  The KIDSCREEN project is funded by the European Commission within the Fifth Framework Programme (FP5). The project is part of the Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources programme, which is one of the seven specific programmes of the FP5. The programme is built around six specific key actions and generic activities. The KIDSCREEN project co-operates with the the DISABKIDS project, which is also funded by the European Commission.
  The project aims at a co-operative European development of a standardised screening instrument for children's quality of life which will be used in representative national and European health surveys. It also aims to identify children at risk, in terms of their subjective health, and to suggest appropriate early interventions by including the instrument in health services research and health reporting.
  

www.ruhbc.ed.ac.uk/research/hbsc/
www.hbsc.org/

• Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC)
  HBSC is a survey conducted every four years in a growing number of countries according to the same protocol and using the same international standard questionnaire. The study was initiated in 1982 by researchers from England, Finland and Norway. Shortly thereafter, the project was adopted by the World Health Organisation for Europe as a WHO Collaborative Study. The first round of data collection took place in these three countries and Austria in the 1983/84 school year and subsequent surveys have taken place in 1985/86, 1989/90, 1993/94 and in 1997/98.

www.disabkids.de/

• DISABKIDS
  is a European project which aims at enhancing the quality of life and the independence of children with chronic health conditions and their families. Central to this pursuit is the development of a set of health related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires that are standardised for the whole of Europe. These new instruments will assess quality of life from the child's perspective in terms of their physical, mental and social well being.

www.rki.de

• Homepage of the Robert Koch Institute (in German only)
  The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is the central organisation of the federal government in the field of disease control and -prevention.

www.child-DynHA.org