Quality of Life and the Millennium Challenge Advances in Quality-of-Life Studies, Theory and Research

Quality of Life and the Millennium Challenge Advances in Quality-of-Life Studies, Theory and Research / edited by Valerie Møller, Denis Huschka.

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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Møller, Valerie (Editor), Huschka, Denis (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Social Indicators Research Series, 35
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Quality of life.
Medical research.
Social sciences.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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