Quality of Life and the Millennium Challenge Advances in Quality-of-Life Studies, Theory and Research /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ml̜ler, Valerie. (Editor), Huschka, Denis. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Social Indicators Research Series, 35
• Subjects: Quality of Life.; Social sciences.; Quality of Life > Research.; Social Sciences, general.; Quality of Life Research.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8569-7

The new millennium is widely considered to be the age of globalisation, democratisation, and human rights. We live in a knowledge society and in a time of risk and uncertainty. World society is rapidly urbanising and ageing and exhausting its natural resources. It is the interplay of such key trends...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Acknowledgements. Introduction
• Part 1: Learning from the past to inform the future
• Part 2: Refining concepts and measurement to assess cross-cultural quality of life
• Part 3: Addressing the role of stability and change in the new millennium
• Part 4: Exploring the role of good governance for a better quality of life
• Part 5: Health care - a major challenge in the new millennium.