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Global Handbook of Quality of Life : Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents

Camfield, Laura [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Møller, Valerie [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Rojas, Mariano [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender]

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2015 [©2015]

1 online resource (878 pages)

Englisch

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978-94-017-9178-6

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LOC-SH: Quality of life -- Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Well-being -- Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Social indicators -- Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Community development -- Handbooks, manuals, etc

Quality of life ; Handbooks, manuals, etc.. ; Well-being ; Handbooks, manuals, etc.. ; Social indicators ; Handbooks, manuals, etc.. ; Community development ; Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Electronic books

'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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Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Monitoring and Analyzing Quality of Life - An Introduction -- The First Measured Century -- New Emerging Goals: Quality of Life and Wellbeing -- Components of Quality of Life: Positive Wellbeing, Negative Wellbeing and Future Expectations -- Positive and Negative Evaluations - Praise and Criticism -- Objective and Subjective Views on Wellbeing -- Monitoring and Analyzing -- Single Events and Social Structures -- Nations and Continents in the Global Society -- Diversity and Inequality -- Long-Term Trends of World Social Development: Health, Wealth, Democracy (Part I) -- Monitoring Global Wellbeing: Objective and Subjective Measurement (Part II) -- Socio-economic Structures of Wellbeing (Part III) -- Social Structures of Wellbeing (Part IV) -- Wellbeing in Nations and Continents (Part V) -- Social Reporting on Wellbeing in Supranational Organizations (Part VI) -- Basic Dimensions of Global Wellbeing (Part VII) -- References and Selected Contributions -- Part I: Long Term Trends of World Social Development: Health, Wealth, Democracy -- 2: Demographic and Health Development in the Long Run -- Introduction -- Data Sources and Population Projections -- Global Demographic Trends -- Population Growth and Demographic Change -- Population Ageing and Age Structure -- Development of Health Indicators -- Child Mortality -- Maternal Mortality -- Family Planning -- HIV/AIDS -- Changes in the Global Burden of Disease -- Life Expectancy at Birth -- Summary -- References -- 3: Living Standards in a Modernizing World - A Long-Run Perspective on Material Wellbeing and Human Development -- Exploring the Change in Real Incomes and the Standard of Living -- The Rule of Sixteen -- The Measurement of Price Change -- How to Account for New Goods -- Greater Variety of Goods and Services -- Concepts of Living Standards.