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How's Life? : Measuring well-being
ISBN: 9789264111615 Year: 2011 Publisher: Paris Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE)

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very person aspires to a good life. But what does “a good or a better life” mean? This report looks at the most important aspects that shape people’s lives and well-being: income, jobs, housing, health, work and life-balance, education, social connections, civic engagement and governance, environment, personal security and subjective well-being. It paints a comprehensive picture of well-being in OECD countries and other major economies, by looking at people’s material living conditions and quality of life across the population. The report responds to the needs of citizens for better information on well-being and of policy makers to give a more accurate picture of societal progress.The report finds that well-being has increased on average over the past fifteen years: people are richer and more likely to be employed; they enjoy better housing conditions and are exposed to lower air pollution; they live longer and are more educated; they are also exposed to fewer crimes. But differences across countries are large. Furthermore, some groups of the population, particularly less educated and low-income people, tend to fare systematically worse in all dimensions of well-being considered in this report: for instance they live shorter lives and report greater health problems; their children obtain worse school results; they participate less in political activities; they can rely on lower social networks in case of needs; they are more exposed to crime and pollution; they tend to be less satisfied with their life as a whole than more educated and higher-income people.


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Cancer rehabilitation : Effects and Mechanisms
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ISBN: 9789036731324 Year: 2007 Publisher: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen


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Being mortal : Illness, medicine, and what matters in the end
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ISBN: 9781846685811 Year: 2014 Publisher: Profile Books

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Vieillessement osteoarticulaire et politique de santé. Nécessité des évaluations de qualité de vie dans la rationalisation de la prise en charge de l'arthrose
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Year: 2003 Publisher: Liège Université de Liège.Faculté de Médecine.Département des Sciences de la santé publique.Section...

EQ-5D value sets : inventory, comparative review and user guide
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ISBN: 9781402055102 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York Springer

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This book provides an essential guide to the use of the EuroQol Group's value sets for anyone working with EQ-5D data. The EQ-5D is one of the most widely-used generic health state descriptive systems internationally, with applications in clinical trials, public health research and assessments of value for money. In addition to providing a way of describing health and health improvement, the EQ-5D facilitates the valuation of health and health gain through its pre-existing value sets, spanning a wide range of countries and continents. This book brings together, for the first time, a comprehensive inventory of these value sets and their characteristics.Further, in response to frequent requests from users of EQ-5D data for advice on valuation, the book provides clear guidance to users on how to choose which value set to use, for what purpose.


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The social situtation in the European Union 2004
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ISBN: 9789289479554 Year: 2004 Publisher: Brussels Luxembourg European Communities Office for Official Publications of the European Communities

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This report is published annually by the Employment and Social Affairs DG and EUROSTAT. It provides an overview of population trends, living conditions and social coherence in the European Union. This year the report seeks to portray the social dimension of the enlarged Union, looking at both social trends and emerging policy challenges.


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Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) : a user's manual
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Year: 1999 Publisher: Boston, Ma Health Act

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The Child Health Questionnaire™ (CHQ) is a family of generic quality of life instruments that have been designed and normed for children 5-to-18 years of age. The CHQ measures 14 unique physical and psychosocial concepts. The parent form is available in 2 lengths - 50 or 28 items. Scores can be analyzed separately, the CHQ Profile Scores, or combined to derive an overall physical and psychosocial score, the CHQ Summary Scores. The CHQ Manual includes copies of the forms and SAS scoring. SPSS code is provided upon written request.In the US, normative values and benchmarks for the parent-reported versions of the CHQ are available for some conditions. The CHQ has been extensively translated using rigorous international guidelines. The youth self-report version is 87 items, and was developed for ages 10 and older. Authorized translations are available from HealthActCHQ. Norms, benchmarks, and summary scoring for the youth version will be forthcoming upon the development and testing of a short-form by the Principal Developer.


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How Was Life? : Global Well-being since 1820
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ISBN: 9789264214064 Year: 2014 Publisher: Paris OECD publications

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How was life in 1820, and how has it improved since then? What are the long-term trends in global well-being? Views on social progress since the Industrial Revolution are largely based on historical national accounting in the tradition of Kuznets and Maddison. But trends in real GDP per capita may not fully re&shy;flect changes in other dimensions of well-being such as life expectancy, education, personal security or gender inequality. Looking at these indicators usually reveals a more equal world than the picture given by incomes alone, but has this always been the case? The new report How Was Life? aims to fill this gap. It presents the first systematic evidence on long-term trends in global well-being since 1820 for 25 major countries and 8 regions in the world covering more than 80% of the world’s population. It not only shows the data but also discusses the underlying sources and their limitations, pays attention to country averages and inequality, and pinpoints avenues for further research.The How Was Life? report is the product of collaboration between the OECD, the OECD Development Centre and the CLIO-INFRA project. It represents the culmination of work by a group of economic historians to systematically chart long-term changes in the dimensions of global well-being and inequality, making use of the most recent research carried out within the discipline. The historical evidence reviewed in the report is organised around 10 different dimensions of well-being that mirror those used by the OECD in its well-being report How’s Life? (www.oecd.org/howslife), and draw on the best sources and expertise currently available for historical perspectives in this field. These dimensions are:per capita GDP, real wages, educational attainment, life expectancy, height, personal security, political institutions, environmental quality, income inequality and gender inequality.

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