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Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research

  • Reference work
  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Alex C. Michalos

    1. University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada
      (residence), Brandon, Canada

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  • The first comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life and well-being
  • Covers the subject of quality of life from a multidisciplinary perspective
  • Includes the behavioral and social sciences as well as health and healthcare
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (6203 entries)

  1. Front Matter

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About this book

The aim of this encyclopedia is to provide a comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research.

Since the 1960s two overlapping but fairly distinct research communities and traditions have developed concerning ideas about the quality of life, individually and collectively, one with a fairly narrow focus on health-related issues and one with a quite broad focus. In many ways, the central issues of these fields have roots extending to the observations and speculations of ancient philosophers, creating a continuous exploration by diverse explorers in diverse historic and cultural circumstances over several centuries of the qualities of human existence. What we have not had so far is a single, multidimensional reference work connecting the most salient and important contributions to the relevant fields.

Entries are organized alphabetically and cover basic concepts, relatively well established facts, lawlike and causal relations, theories, methods, standardized tests, biographic entries on significant figures, organizational profiles, indicators and indexes of qualities of individuals and of communities of diverse sizes, including rural areas, towns, cities, counties, provinces, states, regions, countries and groups of countries.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, Canada

    Alex C. Michalos

  • (residence), Brandon, Canada

    Alex C. Michalos

About the editor

Prof. Alex Michalos currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Brandon University. He is also the Director of Research for the Canadian Index of Wellbeing and Emeritus Professor in Political Science at his former institution, the University of Northern British Columbia. Michalos has published 24 books, over 100 refereed articles, and founded or co-founded seven scholarly journals. Among the seven, he is Editor in Chief for the Journal of Business Ethics, the most frequently cited journal in the world devoted to business ethics, and Social Indicators Research, the first scholarly journal devoted to quality of life research. He is married to Dr. Deborah Poff, President and Vice-Chancellor of Brandon University.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research

  • Editors: Alex C. Michalos

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0752-8Published: 12 February 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0753-5Published: 04 March 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: MMLXIV, 7347

  • Number of Illustrations: 293 b/w illustrations, 368 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Quality of Life Research, Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Economics, general

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