Well-being for public policy
By: Ed Diener ... [et al].
Contributors: Diener, Ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780195334074
Subjects: Quality of life -- Evaluation; Well-being -- Evaluation; Economic indicators; Social indicators; Political planning -- Evaluation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section I: Measuring well-being for public policy; title: Introduction; title: Defining well-being; title: Section II: How well-being adds information; title: Limitations of economic & social indicators; title: Contributions of well-being measures; title: The well-being measures are valid; title: Issues regarding using well-being for policy; title: The desirability of well-being as a guide for policy; title: Section III: Examples of policy uses of well-being measures; title: Health and well-being: policy examples; title: The environment and well-being : policy examples; title: Work, the economy, and well-being: policy examples; title: The social context of well-being : policy examples; title: Section IV: Implementing the measures; title: Existing surveys.