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"The study of 'subjective wellbeing' has seen explosive growth in recent decades, opening important new discourses in personality and social psychology, happiness economics, and moral philosophy. Now it is moving into the policy domain. In this it has arguably overstepped its limits. The shallow theoretical base of subjective wellbeing research, the limitations of its measurement instruments, and its ethical naivety makes policymaking on the basis of its findings a risky venture. The present volume is an attempt to shore up these weaknesses and set subjective wellbeing scholarship on a course for several more decades of growth and maturation. It presents a theory of subjective wellbeing in two parts. The first is the subjective wellbeing production function-a model of wellbeing as outcome. The second is the coalescence of being-a model of the self-actualisation process by which wellbeing is achieved. This two-part model integrates ideas from subjective wellbeing studies with complementary ideas in analytical and continental philosophy, clinical, moral, and developmental psychology, and welfare economics. Importantly, this theory is ethically sensitive, bridging the gap between the philosophical and psychological perspectives on wellbeing in a way that illuminates the complexities facing the application of subjective wellbeing in public policy. The book also provides a thorough review of various ways in which subjective wellbeing can be studied empirically, and the hard trade offs we face between long surveys that capture the richness of the concept and the parsimony required by social surveys and policy analysis"--

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Sund kost og et fysisk aktivt liv er en forudsætning for sundhed og livskvalitet for alle mennesker. Nordisk Ministerråd har som overordnet ambition at sikre sundhed og livskvalitet på lige vilkår for alle nordiske borgere. Men undersøgelser viser, at udviklingen går i den helt forkerte retning med usunde kostvaner, fysisk inaktivitet og overvægt som et stadigt voksende problem. Det er ikke alene en trussel mod livskvaliteten for den enkelte, men også for samfundsøkonomien. Nordisk Ministerråd har derfor vedtaget en fælles nordisk handlingsplan, der skal understøtte de enkelte nordiske landes indsats for at fremme sunde kostvaner og fysisk aktivitet, samt forebygge overvægt. Den nordiske handlingsplan lægger vægt på tiltag, hvor et nordisk samarbejde skaber synergi og tilfører værdi - "added value" - i forhold til de tiltag, de enkelte lande allerede har igangsat. Handlingsplanen udgør også et fælles nordisk indspil til den internationale debat til fremme af sund livsstil. Denne brochure er en kort version af den nordiske handlingsplan, der skitserer de udfordringer, vi står overfor, de fælles nordiske værdier og målsætninger samt prioriterede indsatsområder og særlige fælles nordiske tiltag.

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The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the core of our engagements with and understanding of literature itself. During the past twenty years, much admirable work in the "health humanities" has focused upon what studies of literature contribute to the understandings and the practical work--the "worldly work"--of healthcare. Such a project aims at developing healthcare practitioners who bring greater care to those who come to them ailing or in fear or faced with terrible suffering. Literary Studies and Well-Being turns this inside out by examining the intergenerational caretaking of healthcare in a manner which allows us to comprehend the nature and discipline of literary studies in new ways. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of Oklahoma. Chapter 1: Thesis and Contexts -- Chapter 2: Introduction: On the Discipline of Literary Studies -- Chapter 3: Disciplined Knowledge and the Experience of Meaning -- Chapter 4: The Nature of Value and the Nature of Language -- Chapter 5: The Discipline of Death -- Chapter 6: Action and Ethics in Literary Studies -- Works Cited.

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The Nordic Action Plan for Children and Young Adults in the Adjacent Areas was launched in 1999 in order to contribute to an improvement of the living conditions of young risk groups in the Baltic states and North-West Russia. More than 400 small and large projects have received funding from the programme since then. The present evaluation of the programme has been carried out by the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR). The evaluation team recommends a continuation of the programme founded on its achievements in focusing on risk groups, keeping a cross-sectoral approach, involving the policy level in the adjacent area countries, emphasising competence transfer and capacity building, and stimulating an interest in Nordic approaches and models in work with the risk groups. At the same time the evaluators suggest that in the future more emphasis should be put on a further institutionalisation of the programme, it should be used more actively to build partnerships in the region, more attention should be paid to the human resources in the projects, and dissemination activities should be given a more prominent place.

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Norway, Sweden and Denmark have been working together since 2007 to develop and implement a joint Nordic nutrition label - the Keyhole. The label certifies that the product has met certain requirements for salt, sugar, fat and fibre content. The aim is to make it easier for consumers to find and choose healthier foods.

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