TY - BOOK ID - 14203479 TI - Subjective well-being : measuring happiness, suffering, and other dimensions of experience AU - Stone, Arthur A. AU - Mackie, C. J. AU - National Research Council (U.S.). PY - 2013 SN - 0309294460 0309294479 5264840652 0309294495 PB - Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, DB - UniCat KW - Policy sciences. KW - Political planning. KW - Well-being. KW - Political planning KW - Policy sciences KW - Well-being KW - Quality of life KW - Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms KW - Epidemiologic Methods KW - Information Science KW - Social Control Policies KW - Social Sciences KW - Life KW - Social Control, Formal KW - Quality of Health Care KW - Policy KW - Public Health KW - Philosophy KW - Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena KW - Investigative Techniques KW - Humanities KW - Health Care Economics and Organizations KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation KW - Sociology KW - Health Care KW - Data Collection KW - Public Policy KW - Quality of Life KW - Psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14203479 AB - Could gathering data on subjective well-being help governments and organizations develop policies that better serve the needs of their constituents? This book explores that question, focusing on the policy value of gauging "experienced well-being": peoples' moment to moment and day to day feelings of pleasure, contentment, pain and other emotions and sensations. This report identifies areas of policy and practice where such data would be useful -- ranging from city planning to custody policy to end-of-life care -- and discusses additional aspects of subjective well-being that are important for policy makers to consider. This report also assesses approaches for gathering these data, identifies surveys that should collect them on an experimental basis, and discusses methodological questions that remain. ER -