increasingly prominent in the social sciences and is essential reading for students of social policy, sociology and health studies.
David Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy in the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield.
List of illustrations
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
(14)
A first view of quality of life
1
(2)
Overview of the book
3
(12)
1 Quality of life and the individual
15
(25)
Happiness, life satisfaction, subjective well-being
15
(16)
From subjective well-being to quality of life
31
(5)
Models of quality of life
36
(2)
Conclusion
38
(2)
2 Health-related quality of life
40
(22)
The health-related quality of life of individuals
41
(13)
The health-related quality of life of communities
54
(6)
Conclusion
60
(2)
3 The social context: utility, needs, prudential values and capabilities
62
(42)
Happiness and utilitarianism
62
(8)
Prudential values
70
(10)
Needs
80
(6)
Doyal and Gough's theory of human need (THN)
86
(5)
Capabilities
91
(6)
Conclusion
97
(7)
4 Poverty and wealth, inclusion and exclusion: social processes and social outcomes
104
(28)
Poverty and quality of life
104
(12)
Social exclusion
116
(13)
Poverty, social exclusion and quality of life
129
(3)
5 Communities and quality of life: social capital and social cohesion
132
(26)
Social capital and social cohesion – overview
133
(8)
From social capital to social cohesion: a stepped aggregation
141
(10)
Bringing social cohesion and social exclusion together
151
(7)
6 Societal quality of life constructs
158
(33)
Overarching quality of life constructs
158
(3)
Bernard's democratic dialectic
161
(5)
Berger-Schmitt and Noll's overarching quality of life construct
166
(9)
Social quality
175
(14)
Conclusion
189
(2)
7 Healthy societies: quality and quantity of life
191
(26)
Hancock's public health model
191
(2)
Healthy communities – a case study
193
(3)
Why are some societies healthier than others?
196
(21)
8 Conclusion
217
(31)
Resume and identification of cross-cutting themes
218
(14)
Major themes: from the individual to the societal
232
(6)
Principles of quality of life
238
(10)
Appendix: ENIQ Indicators of social quality
248
(5)
Bibliography
253
(14)
Index
267
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