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Author : Susan Harkness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Quality of life
ISBN : 9291906204
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264214262
This book presents the first systematic evidence on long-term trends in global well-being since 1820 for 25 major countries and 8 regions in the world covering more than 80% of the world’s population.
Author : M. McGillivray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230625600
This book provides insights into how human well-being could be better defined and empirically assessed. It takes stock of and reviews various concepts and measures and provides recommendations for future practice and research.
Author : Mark McGillivray,Matthew Clarke
Publisher : UNU
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123142130
This publication examines advances in underlying well-being, poverty, and inequality concepts and corresponding empirical applications and case studies, including traditional monetary concepts and measurements and non-monetary factors including educational achievement, longevity, health, and subjective well-being.
Author : Frank M. Andrews,Stephen B. Withey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781468422535
This is a study about perceptions of well-being. Its purpose is to investigate how these perceptions are organized in the minds of different groups of American adults, to find valid and efficient ways of measuring these percep tions, to suggest ways these measurement methods could be implemented to yield a series of social indicators, and to provide some initial readings on these indicators; i.e., some information about the levels of well-being perceived by Americans. The findings are based on data from more than five thousand Americans and include results from four separate representative samplings of the American population. One of the ways our research is unusual is that it includes a major methodological component. Typical surveys involve a modest effort at instru ment development, the application of the instrument to a group of respondents, and an analysis of the resulting data that mainly describes the people studied. Our work, however, was implemented in a series of sequential cycles, each of which consisted of conceptual development, instrument design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Ideas and findings generated in prior cycles affected the design of subsequent cycles.
Author : Kenneth C. Land,Alex C. Michalos,M. Joseph Sirgy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789400724211
The aim of the Handbook of Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research is to create an overview of the field of Quality of Life (QOL) studies in the early years of the 21st century that can be updated and improved upon as the field evolves and the century unfolds. Social indicators are statistical time series “...used to monitor the social system, helping to identify changes and to guide intervention to alter the course of social change”. Examples include unemployment rates, crime rates, estimates of life expectancy, health status indices, school enrollment rates, average achievement scores, election voting rates, and measures of subjective well-being such as satisfaction with life-as-a-whole and with specific domains or aspects of life. This book provides a review of the historical development of the field including the history of QOL in medicine and mental health as well as the research related to quality-of-work-life (QWL) programs. It discusses several of QOL main concepts: happiness, positive psychology, and subjective wellbeing. Relations between spirituality and religiousness and QOL are examined as are the effects of educational attainment on QOL and marketing, and the associations with economic growth. The book goes on to investigate methodological approaches and issues that should be considered in measuring and analysing quality of life from a quantitative perspective. The final chapters are dedicated to research on elements of QOL in a broad range of countries and populations.
Author : Paul Allin,David J. Hand
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118916209
What is national wellbeing and what is progress? Why measure these definitions? Why are measures beyond economic performance needed and how will they be used? How do we measure national wellbeing & turn the definitions into observable quantities? Where are we now and where to next? These questions are asked and answered in this much needed, timely book. The Wellbeing of Nations provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of the measurement of national well-being, examining whether national wellbeing is more than the sum of the wellbeing of everyone in the country, and identifying and reviewing requirements for new measures. It begins with definitions, describes how to operationalize those definitions, and takes a critical look at the uses to which such measures are to be put. The authors examine initiatives from around the world, using the UK ‘measuring national wellbeing programme’ as a case study throughout the book, along with case studies drawn from other countries, as well as discussion of the position in some countries not yet drawn into the national wellbeing scene.
Author : Frank Ackerman,David Kiron,Neva R. Goodwin,Jonathan Harris,Kevin Gallagher
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1559635606
What are the ends of economic activity? According to neoclassical theory, efficient interaction of the profit-maximizing "ideal producer" and the utility-maximizing "ideal consumer" will eventually lead to some sort of social optimum. But is that social optimum the same as human well-being? Human Well-Being and Economic Goals addresses that issue, considering such questions as: Does the maximization of individual welfare really lead to social welfare? How can we deal with questions of relative welfare and of equity? How do we define, or at least understand, individual and social welfare? And how can these things be measured, or even assessed? Human Well-Being and Economic Goals brings together more than 75 concise summaries of the most significant literature in the field that consider issues of present and future individual and social welfare, national development, consumption, and equity. Like its predecessors in the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought series, it takes a multidisciplinary approach to economic concerns, examining their sociological, philosophical, and psychological aspects and implications as well as their economic underpinnings. Human Well-Being and Economic Goals provides a powerful introduction to the current and historical writings that examine the concept of human well-being in ways that can help us to set goals for economic activity and judge its success. It is a valuable summary and overview for students, economists, and social scientists concerned with these issues.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264728448
How’s Life? charts whether life is getting better for people in 37 OECD countries and 4 partner countries. This fifth edition presents the latest evidence from an updated set of over 80 indicators, covering current well-being outcomes, inequalities, and resources for future well-being.
Author : Hyun Hwa Son
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136579325
Equity is an abstract concept covering philosophical issues such as fairness and social justice, making its definition and measurement complex. This volume tackles these complexities head-on. The book is enriched with many empirical analyses and provides a comprehensive analysis of equity ranging from concepts and measurements to empirical illustrations and policy implications. After an extensive discussion on equity in the introduction, this volume begins with a chapter on well-being where the concepts of functioning and capability are discussed. This is followed by a few chapters on what an equitable distribution is and how equity can be measured. The volume then provides a definition and a methodology to measure equitable growth, examining the relationship between growth, inequality, and poverty. It also presents various empirical illustrations and country-specific experiences with three country case studies which assess whether publicly provided health and education services are equitable in developing Asia, examining the extent to which these social services favor the poor as well as the policy challenges to a more equitable delivery of these services. Finally, these country studies provide evidence–based policy recommendations to improve equity in social service delivery in developing countries. Achieving social equity has long been an important policy goal. There are relatively few studies on equity. This book aims to help fill this gap with an in-depth analysis of the issues associated with equity, covering its concept, measurement, and policy practices and implications.
Author : Ian Bache,Karen Scott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319583945
This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage. Through a combination of intellectual inquiry, empirically-grounded research, and investigation across different settings, this book aims to provide fresh insights and develop new lenses through which to understand the rise and significance of the wellbeing agenda. Divided into three parts, it considers how to define wellbeing for public policy; the prospects for wellbeing as a force for political change; and the link between policy agendas and the everyday lives of people. The book explores the key political issues of power, democracy, and the legitimacy of wellbeing evidence in a range of settings – international, national and subnational/substate. The volume will appeal to wellbeing and politics scholars, as well as students and general readers with an interest in these new political agendas.
Author : Ian Gough,J. Allister McGregor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139464079
In a world where many experience unprecedented levels of wellbeing, chronic poverty remains a major concern for many developing countries and the international community. Conventional frameworks for understanding development and poverty have focused on money, commodities and economic growth. This 2007 book challenges these conventional approaches and contributes to a new paradigm for development centred on human wellbeing. Poor people are not defined solely by their poverty and a wellbeing approach provides a better means of understanding how people become and stay poor. It examines three perspectives: ideas of human functioning, capabilities and needs; the analysis of livelihoods and resource use; and research on subjective wellbeing and happiness. A range of international experts from psychology, economics, anthropology, sociology, political science and development evaluate the state-of-the-art in understanding wellbeing from these perspectives. This book establishes a new strategy and methodology for researching wellbeing that can influence policy.
Author : University of Michigan. Survey Research Center
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036444086
Author : Vincente Navarro,Caries Muntaner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351863933
The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century. This volume, following in the footsteps of Vicente Navarro's edited collection The Political Economy of Social Inequalities, is a compilation of recent contributions to the areas of social epidemiology, health disparities, health economics, and health services research. The overarching theme is to describe and explain the evergrowing health inequalities across social class, race, and gender, as well as neighborhood, city, region, country, and continent. The approach of this book is distinctly multi-, trans-, and interdisciplinary: the fields of public health, population health, epidemiology, economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, medicine, and history are all represented here.
Author : Vincente Navarro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351863902
In the last two decades of the 20th century, we witnessed a dramatic growth in social inequalities within and among countries. This has had a most negative impact on the health and quality of life of large sectors of the populations in the developed and underdeveloped world. This volume analyzes the reasons for this increase in inequalities and its consequences for the well-being of populations. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries analyze the different dimensions of this topic.
