Thinkers have discussed the “good life” and the desirable society for millennia. In the last
decades, scientists offered several alternative approaches to defining and measuring quality …

From early on in the last century, governments and other organizations have published
social reports more and more regularly. These reports contain statistics and analyses of …

Modern societies in both developing and developed countries have real and legitimate
concerns about the enhancement, maintenance, and redistribution of individual well-being …

Much of what we know about individuals' subjective well-being is based on the findings of a
great number of representative surveys that asked respon dents to repori how happy and …

QUALITY OF LIFE-QOL-is a new name for an old notion. It is a subjective name for the" well
being" of people and the environment in which they live. For any individual, QOL expresses …

Quality of life has meaning and implications for all of us. While exploring the popular
references to the term, Quality of Life also compares the technical meanings in medicine, the …

In order to compare the quality of life (QOL) in US metropolitan areas economic,
sociological, political and cultural data are often gathered and equally weighted without …

Various disciplines have approached and defined Quality of Life (QOL) and its closely
related topics of human well-being and hap piness, differently. Quality of life is influenced by …

The concepts of well-being and quality of life concern evaluative judgements. There is
insufficient understanding in current literature that these judgements are made variously due …

National accounts of subjective well-being should be used to assess the various facets of
citizen's well-being such as life satisfaction, trust in others, positive emotions, meaning and …