Barometers of Quality of Life Around the Globe How Are We Doing? /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Møller, Valerie (Editor), Huschka, Denis (Editor), Michalos, Alex C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Social Indicators Research Series, 33
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Medical research.; Social policy.; Development economics.; Quality of life.; Social Sciences.; Quality of Life Research.; Social Policy.; Development Economics.; History of Science.; Social Sciences, general.

Quality of life (QOL) research has made great strides since the social indicator movement started as a scientific enterprise in the 1960s. Following the lead of pioneers in North America and Europe, social scientists in other regions of the world have adopted and refined social data systems or barom...