Essays on the Quality of Life
Since initiating the journal Social Indicators Research in 1974, Alex C. Michalos has been a pioneer in social indicators and quality-of-life research. This collection of nineteen articles provides an overview of nearly 30 years of work, including papers drawn from diverse sources and papers never p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2003, 2003
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2003 |
| Series: | Social Indicators Research Series
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Reflections on twenty-five years of quality-of-life research
- 2. Combining social, economic and environmental indicators to measure sustainable human well-being
- 3. Evaluation of equality policies for the status of women in Canada
- 4. Militarism and the quality of life
- 5. Migration and the quality of life
- 6. Job satisfaction, marital satisfaction and the quality of life
- 7. Discrepancies between perceived income needs and actual incomes
- 8. Optimism in 30 countries over a decade
- 9. Health and the quality of life
- 10. Health and other aspects of the quality of life of older people
- 11. Healthy days, health satisfaction and satisfaction with the overall quality of life
- 12. Leisure activities, health and the quality of life
- 13. Social indicators research and health-related quality of life research
- 14. Public services and the quality of life
- 15. Criminal victimization and the quality of life
- 16. Policing services and the quality of life
- 17. Feminism and the quality of life
- 18. Ethnicity, modern prejudice and the quality of life
- 19. The impact of trust on business, international security and the quality of life
- 20. Multiple discrepancies theory (MDT)