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Global Handbook of Quality of Life

Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents - Previously published in hardcover
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
894 Seiten
Englisch
Springer Netherlandserschienen am12.10.2016Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
This handbook provides a comprehensive historical account of the field of Quality of Life.mehr
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KlappentextThis handbook provides a comprehensive historical account of the field of Quality of Life.
Zusammenfassung'Quality of Life' data are now seen as a more rounded measure of a nation's development. This book covers many of dthe methods of gauging quality of life, and addresses the interactions between well-being and economic growth, and well-being and sustainability.
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ISBN/GTIN978-94-017-7796-4
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2016
Erscheinungsdatum12.10.2016
AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
ReiheInternational Handbooks of Quality-of-Life
Seiten894 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht1698 g
IllustrationenXII, 894 p. 192 illus., 126 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.40396034
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GenreMedizin

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword; Alex C. Michalos and Wolfgang Zapf.- Chapter 1. Monitoring and Analyzing Global Quality of Life: An Introdution.- Part I. Long Term Trends of World Social Development: Health, Wealth, Democracy.- Chapter 2. Demographic and Health Development in the Long Run; Frank Swiaczny.- Chapter 3. Living Standards in a Modernizing World: A Long Run Perspective on Material Well-Being and Human Development; Herman de Jong.- Chapter 4. Wars and Violence through the Centuries; Mathias Boes and Hinrich Rosenbrock.- Chapter 5. The Worldwide Spread of Democracy; Robert K. Schaeffer.- Part II. Monitoring Global Well-Being: Objective and Subjective Measurement: Objective Approaches.- Chapter 6. Global Economic Accounting and its Critics; Jürgen Faik.- Chapter 7. The human Development Index; Kenneth C. Land.- Chapter 8. The Index of Social Progress; Richard J. Estes.- Part II. Monitoring Global Well-Being: Objective and Subjective Measurement: Subjective Approaches.- Chapter 9. The Overall Satisfaction with Life; Ruut Veenhoven.- Chapter 10. Multi-Item Measurement of Subjective Well-Being; Robert A. Cummins and Melissa K. Weinberg.- Chapter 11. The Affect Balance Scale; Norman Bradburn.- Part III. Socio-Economic Structures of Well-Being.- Chapter 12. Happiness and Economic Growth: The Evidence; Richard A. Easterlin.- Chapter 13. Well-Being and Sustainable Consumption; Monica Guillen and Harold Langford Wilhite.- Chapter 14. Poverty and People´s Well-Being; Mariano Rojas.- Chapter 15. Well-Being and the Labor Market from a Global View: It´s not just the Money; Duncan Campbell and Roger Magi Gomis Porquet.- Chapter 16. The Contributiion of Unpaid Work to Global Well-Being; Maria-Angeles Duran.- Chapter 17. Welfare Production and Quality of Life; Michael Dauderstädt.- Part IV. Social Structures of Well-Being.- Chapter 18. Living Alone and Living Together: Their Significance for Well-Being; Liz Eckermann.- Chapter 19. Worldwide View of Child Well-Being; Vicki L. Lamb and KennethC. Land.- Chapter 20. Global Perspective on Quality in Later Life; Fermina Roja-Perez, Gloria Fernandez-Mayoralas and Vivente Rodriguez-Rodriguez.- Chapter 21. Migration and Quality of Life in the Global Context; David Bartram.- Part V. Well-Being in Nations and at Continents.- Chapter 22. Quality of Life and Well-Being in North-Africa: Algeria, Eqypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia; Habib Tiliouine.- Chapter 23. Shadow of the Sun: The Distribution of Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa; Benjamin J. Roberts, Steven L. Gordon, Valerie Møller and Jarè Struwig.- Chapter 24. Well-Being in Canada; Simon Langlois.- Chapter 25. Quality of Life in the United States; Rhonda Philips.- Chapter 26. Argentina´s Economic Development and Life Satisfaction Revisited: 1984-2012; Martin Tetaz, Pablo Schiaffino and Miguel Braun.- Chapter 27. Multiple Modes of Well-Being in Asia; Takashi Inoguchi.- Chapter 28. The Distribution of Quality of Life in Australia; Melissa K. Weinberg and Robert A. Cummins.- Chapter29. An Overview of Quality of Life in Europe; Daphne Ahrendt, Hans Dubois and Erika Mezger.- Chapter 30. Well-Being in Slovakia; Jozef Dzuka.- Chapter 31. From Dissonance to Wellbeing and Adaption? Quality of Life in Switzerland Over the Past Decades; Christian Suter, Katia Iglesias and Jehane Moussa.- Chapter 32. Living Conditions and Perceived Quality of Life Among Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic; Birgir Poppel.- Part VI. Social Reporting on Well-Being in Supranational Organizations.- Chapter 33. Well-Being and Quality of Life Reporting at the OECD; Romina Boarini.- Chapter 34. The World Health Organization: The Case for Measuring Wellbeing in Europe; Claudia Stein and Ritu Sadana.- Chapter 35. Social Reporting of the European Union: Description of the Organization; Marleen De Smedt.- Chapter 36. Well-Being for All - The Aim of Social Cohesion: Developing the Approach at the Council of Europe; Gilda Farell.- Part VII. Basic Dimensions of Global Well-Being.- Chapter 37. Assessing theSubjective Wellbeing of Nations; Filomena Maggino.- Chapter 38. Cultural Construal of Wellbeing: Theories and Empirical Evidence; Yukiko Uchida, Yuji Ogihara and Shintaro Fukushima.- Chapter 39. Satisfaction and Happiness: The Bright Side of Quality of Life; Louis Tay, Lauren Kuykendall and Ed Diener.- Chapter 40. Worries and Pain: The Dark Side of Quality of Life; Wolfgang Glatzer.- Chapter 41. Hopes and Fears: Future Views of Quality of Life; Jennifer Gulyas.mehr

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