TY - BOOK ID - 5449113 TI - Assessing quality of life and living conditions to guide national policy : the state of the art AU - Hagerty, Michael Raymond AU - Vogel, Joachim AU - Mller, Valerie. PY - 2002 SN - 1280200006 9786610200009 0306475138 1402007272 PB - Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Social indicators KW - Quality of life KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Social Change KW - Social Conditions KW - Evaluation KW - #SBIB:303H30 KW - #SBIB:303H34 KW - #SBIB:303H15 KW - #SBIB:033.AANKOOP KW - Kwalitatieve methoden: algemeen KW - Kwalitatieve methoden: grondige gevallenstudie, casework, social work KW - Methoden en technieken van de bestuurswetenschappen KW - Indicators, Social KW - Social history KW - Economic indicators KW - Social accounting KW - Social prediction KW - Quality of life. KW - Evaluation. KW - Life, Quality of KW - Economic history KW - Human ecology KW - Life KW - Basic needs KW - Human comfort KW - Work-life balance KW - Social indicators. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5449113 AB - Our book is a useful "how to" book for researchers and government offices wanting to start or improve their own QOL survey, and contains "best practices" from all over the world. We discuss cutting-edge surveys that are being adopted by all countries in the European community as a standardized measure of each country's progress. We also discuss how developing countries can begin the measurement of Quality of Life in ways that will increase political credibility and require smaller budgets. Other chapters describe policy applications of the Quality of Life surveys, including nations' health goals, smoking cessation, child welfare, and poverty reduction. The authors of these chapters are the world's top experts on assessing Quality of Life. For example, the author of the first chapter is Sten Johansson, former Director of Statistics Sweden, responsible for creating the first comprehensive QOL assessment systems in the world, beginning in the 1960's. The author of the second chapter is Professor Ruut Veenhoven, known as the premier researcher on national happiness, having developed the largest database in the world on the subjective measures of well-being. Heinz-Herbert Noll is responsible for developing the unified Quality of Life measurement system for the new European Union, where up to 25 countries will be assessed using the same methodology and questionnaires. ER -