Quality of life and the millennium challenge advances in quality-of-life studies, theory and research
The new millennium is widely considered to be the age of globalisation, democratisation, and human rights. We live in a knowledge society and in a time of risk and uncertainty. World society is rapidly urbanising and ageing and exhausting its natural resources. It is the interplay of such key trends...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Dordrecht] :
Springer
c2009.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2009. |
| Colección: | Social indicators research series ;
v. 35. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009462268106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Learning from the Past to Inform the Future
- Challenges for Quality-of-Life Studies in the New Millennium
- South Africa: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- Poverty and the Quality of Life: Lessons from South African Research
- The Importance of a Mixed Cash- and Harvest Herding Based Economy to Living in the Arctic – An Analysis on the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA)
- Refining Concepts and Measurement to Assess Cross-Cultural Quality of Life
- The International Scale Interval Study: Improving the Comparability of Responses to Survey Questions About Happiness
- More Than SF-36? Using Narratives to Elaborate Health and Well-Being Data in Recent Lower-Limb Amputees
- The Spiritual Dimension of Quality of Life, with Special Reference to Education and Spirituality
- Addressing the Role of Stability and Change in the New Millennium
- The Impact of Instability on Subjective Well-Being: A Cross-National Study
- Stability and Change in National and Personal Wellbeing in Algeria: A Case Study of a Developing Country in Transition
- ‘All That Glitters Is Not Gold’: Johannesburg and Migrant Access to Social Services
- Exploring the Role of Good Governance For a Better Quality of Life
- Trust and Life Satisfaction in Eastern and Western Europe
- Quality of Life in Cities: A Question of Mobility and Accessibility
- The Main Determinants for Subjective Well-Being: A Quest for the Holy Grail?
- Health Care – A Major Challenge in the New Millennium
- The Vicious Circularity of Mental Health Effects of HIV/AIDS: Symptom and Cause of Poor Responses to the Epidemic
- Universal Coverage but Unequal Access?
- Prospects for Community-Based Rehabilitation in the New Millennium.
