ISBN:
9789401791786
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XII, 894 p. 192 illus., 126 illus. in color, online resource)
Series Statement:
International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Global handbook of quality of life
Keywords:
Social sciences
;
Quality of Life
;
Endogenous growth (Economics)
;
Quality of Life Research
;
Social Sciences
;
Social sciences
;
Quality of Life
;
Endogenous growth (Economics)
;
Quality of Life Research
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Lebensqualität
;
Wohlbefinden
;
Internationaler Vergleich
Abstract:
This handbook provides a comprehensive historical account of the field of Quality of Life. It brings together theoretical insights and empirical findings, and presents the main items of global quality of life and wellbeing research. Worldwide in its scope of topics, the handbook examines discussions of demographic and health development, the spread of democracy, global economic accounting, multi-item measurement of perceived satisfaction and expert-assessed quality of life, and the well-being of children, women and poor people. It looks at well-being in specific regions, including North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, South America, and Eastern and Western Europe. In addition to contributions by leading and younger authors, the handbook includes contributions from International Organizations about their own work with respect to social reporting
Description / Table of Contents:
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)
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Population Growth and Demographic ChangePopulation 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Real WagesGross Domestic Product; Social Indicators and HDI; Subjective Wellbeing; Welfare Growth Before Industrialization; GDP Per Capita Before 1800; Real Wages and International Welfare Ratios; Explaining Conflicting Evidence from GDP Per Capita and Real Wages; The Early Growth Paradox; The British Standard of Living Debate; The Antebellum Puzzle in the U.S.; Welfare Effects of Industrialization Elsewhere; Urban Disamenities, Health, and Public Policies; Household Consumption and Child and Female Labor; Working Hours and Leisure
Description / Table of Contents:
Long Term Inequality and Comparative Standards of Living in the Twentieth CenturyConcluding Comments: Human Development and Health Care Expenditures; References; 4: Wars and Violence Through the Centuries; Introduction; The Archaeology of War, Violence, and Wellbeing; Some Methodological Remarks; A Discursive Approach on War and Wellbeing in Ancient Times; Gender and War; Negative Impacts of War on Soldiers and Civilians; Positive Impacts on Civilians and Soldiers; The Origins of the Modern World (1000 CE 1750 CE); War and the Political and Economic Setting in the Middle Ages
Description / Table of Contents:
The Origins of Modern Colonialism
Description / Table of Contents:
Foreword; Alex C. Michalos and Wolfgang ZapfChapter 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 Kenneth C. 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 -- Chapter 29. An Overview of Quality of Life in Europe; Daphne Ahrendt, Hans Dubois and Erika Mezger -- Chapter 30. Well-Being in Slovakia; Jozef Džuka -- 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 the Subjective 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.
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10.1007/978-94-017-9178-6
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