This special issue highlights the growing trend in applied economics research of the use and analysis of subjective concepts, such as quality of life. It contains five studies that highlight the broad range of research currently in vogue, including the valuation of protected areas, a living ...
health economicsQOLQuality of Life (QOL) is an important economic benefit which we are willing to pay for. Economic evaluation is a method for finding out the best value for money in order to allocate resources. Since the traditional measures of QOL, using generic or specific instruments, are...
This paper addresses the lack of appropriate gateway-transitional-interdisciplinary concepts in introductory economics courses by suggesting the Quality of Life (QOL) and Democratic Capitalism as two effective teaching-tool candidates. Economics is only one of life's domains, and an important one, as ...
Monetary measures of living standards tend to omit important aspects of life (e.g., nutrition, life expectancy) that cannot be bought or sold. Other difficulties accompany the use of monetary indicators. For example, the items that are measurable in monetary terms may have been valued at distor...
Announcing “Family Well-Being” section in Applied Research in Quality of Life (ARQOL) As family well-being is closely related to quality of life, we are ...
Quality of Life The term quality of life in the health-care field has become useful in integrating the patient's subjective experience of their life during illness into clinical care. This is done by relying on patient's subjective assessment of their quality of life. The importance of quality...
Bringing the five senses back to life is the necessary foundation for growth. This gives me a great deal of optimism that, over the next year, the Chinese economic engine will once again be shifting into high gear. Now, we move on to the questions of quantity and quality. ...
Quality of life的评估有直接的方法(如Standard gamble, time trade-off), 也有间接的方法(如EQ-5D, HUI, QWB等). Standard gamble (SG)的定义 In the standard gamble, an individual is asked to choose between a chronic health state characterized by symptoms and functional limitations and a gamble ...
The definition of quality of life has been discussed under various subjects throughout the decades, such as psychology, medicine, economics, environmental science, and sociology (Costanza et al.2006). Many authors have tried to coin the term: Costanza et al. (2006) present the general assumption...
Quality of life is a highly subjective measure of happiness that is an important component of many financial decisions.