David Phillips

Quality of Life

Concept, Policy and Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at subjective and objective individual well-being and family, community and social life, relating quality of life to other contemporary concepts such as social capital, social inclusion and health inequality and sets them in an international and global perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780415323550
• ISBN-10: 041532355X
• Artikelnr.: 21796859

Autorenporträt

David Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, UK. He has undertaken research on a wide range of topics in the health and social services, on community solidarity within minority communities and on quality of life. At present, he is studying the contribution of trust, reciprocity and altruism to social cohesion.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and Overview 2. Quality of Life and the Individual 3.
Health-Related Quality of Life 4. The Social Context - Utility, Needs,
Prudential Values and Capabilities 5. Poverty and Wealth, Inclusion and
Exclusion - Social Processes and Social Outcomes 6. Communities and Quality
of Life - Social Capital and Social Cohesion 7. Societal Quality of Life
Constructs 8. Healthy Societies - Quality and Quantity of Life 9.
Conclusions Appendix Bibliography