2014
Quality of life: An overview
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Abstract
The term “quality of life” serves as a catchword for different notions of the good life. It is used in fact to denote a set of qualities of life, which can be ordered on the basis of the following two distinctions. One distinction is between opportunities for a good life and the outcomes of life. This distinction is quite common in the field of public-health research. Preconditions for good health, such as adequate nutrition and professional care, are seldom mixed up with the concept of health. A second difference is between external and inner qualities of life. In the first case, the quality is in the environment in which one lives; in the latter, it is in the individual. This distinction is also quite common in public health. External pathogens are distinguished from inner afflictions.
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| Organisation | Department of Sociology |
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Veenhoven, R. (2014). Quality of life: An overview. In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (pp. 5265–5269). doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_103345 |
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