Global Handbook of Quality of Life : Exploration of Well-Being of Nations and Continents

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Monitoring and Analyzing Quality of Life – An Introduction
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   Chapter 2 Demographic and Health Development in the Long Run
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   Chapter 3 Living Standards in a Modernizing World – A Long-Run Perspective on Material Wellbeing and Human Development
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   Chapter 4 Wars and Violence Through the Centuries
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   Chapter 5 The Worldwide Spread of Democracy
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   Chapter 6 Global Economic Accounting and Its Critics: Objective Approaches (1)
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   Chapter 7 The Human Development Index: Objective Approaches (2)
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   Chapter 8 The Index of Social Progress: Objective Approaches (3)
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    Chapter 9 The Overall Satisfaction with Life: Subjective Approaches (1)
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    Chapter 10 Multi-item Measurement of Subjective Wellbeing: Subjective Approaches (2)
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    Chapter 11 The Affect Balance Scale: Subjective Approaches (3)
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    Chapter 12 Happiness and Economic Growth – The Evidence
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    Chapter 13 Wellbeing and Sustainable Consumption
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    Chapter 14 Poverty and People’s Wellbeing
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    Chapter 15 Well-Being and the Labour Market from a Global View: It’s Not Just the Money
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    Chapter 16 The Contribution of Unpaid Work to Global Wellbeing
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    Chapter 17 Welfare Production and Quality of Life
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    Chapter 18 Living Alone and Living Together – Their Significance for Wellbeing
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    Chapter 19 Worldwide View of Child Wellbeing
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    Chapter 20 Global Perspective on Quality in Later Life
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    Chapter 21 Migration and Quality of Life in the Global Context
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    Chapter 22 Quality of Life and Wellbeing in North Africa – Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia
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    Chapter 23 Shadow of the Sun – The Distribution of Wellbeing in Sub-Saharan Africa
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    Chapter 24 Wellbeing in Canada
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    Chapter 25 Quality of Life in the United States
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    Chapter 26 Argentina’s Economic Development and Life Satisfaction Revisited – 1984–2012
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    Chapter 27 Multiple Modes of Wellbeing in Asia
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    Chapter 28 The Distribution of Quality of Life in Australia
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    Chapter 29 An Overview of Quality of Life in Europe
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    Chapter 30 Wellbeing in Slovakia
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    Chapter 31 From Dissonance to Well-Being and Adaption? Quality of Life in Switzerland Over the Past Decades
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    Chapter 32 Living Conditions and Perceived Quality of Life Among Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic
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    Chapter 33 Wellbeing and Quality of Life Reporting at the OECD
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    Chapter 34 The World Health Organization – The Case for Measuring Wellbeing in Europe
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    Chapter 35 Social Reporting of the European Union – Description of the Organization
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    Chapter 36 Wellbeing for All – The Aim of Social Cohesion: Developing the Approach at the Council of Europe
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    Chapter 37 Assessing the Subjective Wellbeing of Nations
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    Chapter 38 Cultural Construal of Wellbeing – Theories and Empirical Evidence
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    Chapter 39 Satisfaction and Happiness – The Bright Side of Quality of Life
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    Chapter 40 Worries and Pain – The Dark Side of Quality of Life
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    Chapter 41 Hopes and Fears – Future Views of Quality of Life