Approaches to Improving the Quality of Life

How to Enhance the Quality of Life
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-481-9148-2
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 159 Seiten

After measuring the Quality of Life and identifying the deficiences in your community, what steps should you take to improve the Quality of Life? This volume reviews methods for improving the Quality of Life that are based upon improving each of the ten domains of the Quality of Life. Steps to improve health, means of reducing environmental toxins, orientation to bring about better self-concept and mental health, and so forth. In each such area, steps are set forth for eliminating undesirable and debilitating features of the domain. Social change comes about by the application of devised steps. The process has been called 'telesis'. It is the application of intelligent, well-tested interventions to bring about improvement. In some cases it may effect change quickly and others may require a continuing process of adjustment and change. As a handbook for community workers, the volume provides a framework for intervention that could lead to a better tomorrow.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;7
2;Contents;8
3;Introduction;12
3.1; The Social Environment;12
3.2; Domains of the QOL;13
3.3; Positive and Negative;14
3.4; Subjective, Objective;15
3.5; QOL;15
3.6; Happiness;16
4;1 Survival of the Species;17
4.1; Factors Leading to Extension;18
4.2; Fertility;18
4.3; Factors Leading to Exhaustion;20
4.3.1; Suicide;20
4.3.2; Disease;21
4.3.3; Disasters;22
4.3.4; War;23
4.3.5; Genocide;23
4.3.6; Religious Conflict;24
4.3.7; Tribal Extinction;25
4.3.8; Family Violence;25
4.4; Conclusion: Factors Promoting Survival;26
5;2 Social Acceptance;27
5.1; Mental Health;27
5.2; Spiritual Experiences;28
5.2.1; Lower Mortality;29
5.2.2; Trends;29
5.2.3; Social System;29
5.3; Family;30
5.3.1; Child Socialization;30
5.3.2; Offspring Defects;30
5.3.3; Homosexuality;31
5.3.4; Teen Pregnancy;31
5.4; Friendship;32
5.4.1; Group Participation;32
5.5; Group Structure;33
5.5.1; Headaches;34
5.6; Leisure Time;35
6;3 Mastery;37
6.1; Free Markets;37
6.2; Income;38
6.3; Success;39
6.4; Poverty;40
6.5; Child Poverty;41
6.6; Materialism;42
6.7; Religion;42
6.8; Small Business Loans;42
6.9; Employment;43
6.10; Summary of Initiatives;44
7;4 Affective Autonomy;45
7.1; Role Behavior;46
7.1.1; Role Conflict;46
7.1.2; Emotion;46
7.2; Income and Happiness;47
7.3; National Income and Happiness;48
7.4; Happiness Concisely Considered;48
7.5; GSS Happiness;51
7.6; Age and Happiness;52
7.7; Opinions/Attitudes;52
7.8; Values and QOL;54
7.9; Motivation;54
7.10; The National Mood;55
7.10.1; Love;56
7.11; Summary of Initiatives;57
8;5 Intellectual Autonomy;58
8.1; Literacy;58
8.2; Education, Free Expression;59
8.3; Educating the Child;59
8.4; Flourishing;60
8.5; Creativity in Problem Solving;61
8.6; Working with Conflict: Written by Dr. Margaret S. Herrman;62
8.6.1; Suggestions for Confronting Positively;63
8.7; Conclusion;65
9;6 Harmony;66
9.1; Toxins;67
9.2; Land Pollution;67
9.3; Water;68
9.4; Global Warming;68
9.5; Meat;69
9.6; Other Energy Sources;70
9.7; Electricity;70
9.8; A Five-Step Plan;71
9.9; Urban Renewal;72
9.10; Humans Adapt;73
9.11; Summary of Actions Needed;73
9.11.1; Technology;73
10;7 Conservatism;75
10.1; Violence;75
10.2; Conflict;76
10.3; Poverty;76
10.4; Identity Theft;78
10.5; Criminal Justice System;79
10.6; Battered Women;81
10.7; Summary of Steps to Maintain Order;82
11;8 Hierarchy;83
11.1; Stratification;83
11.2; Social Class;84
11.3; Homelessness;85
11.4; The Lower Segment;86
11.5; Summary;87
12;9 Egalitarian Commitment;88
12.1; Civil Liberties;88
12.2; Southern Poverty Law Center;89
12.3; Bnai Brith International;90
12.4; Social Capital;91
12.5; Social Cohesion;93
12.6; Civil Rights;93
12.7; Reconciliation;94
12.8; Human Rights;95
12.9; Social Change and Anomie;96
12.10; Morality;97
12.11; Distributive Justice;97
12.12; Religious Radicalism;98
12.13; Summary of Initiatives to Improve QOL;98
13;10 Health;99
13.1; Socioeconomic Influences;100
13.2; Life Expectancy;101
13.3; Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System;101
13.4; Medical Technologies;102
13.5; Alternative Treatments;102
13.6; Mental Illness;104
13.7; Stress;106
13.8; Overweight, Obesity;106
13.9; Prevention;108
13.10; Alcoholism;109
13.11; Cigarettes;112
13.12; Exercise;114
13.13; Nutrition;115
13.14; Health Summary;117
14;11 Toward the Good Life in a Good Society;118
14.1; Values;118
14.2; Social Quality;119
14.3; Happiness;119
14.4; Peace;120
14.5; Security;120
14.6; Plagues and Pandemics;121
14.7; Religion;121
14.8; Demographic Growth;123
14.9; Social and Individual Factors;123
14.9.1; Self-destruction;123
14.9.2; Domestic Violence;124
14.9.3; Mental Health;124
14.9.4; Physical Health;124
14.9.5; Socializing the Child;125
14.9.6; Community and Neighborhood;125
14.9.7; Leisure Time;125
14.9.8; The Good Society;126
15;12 Interventions;127
15.1; Mukherjee;128
15.2; Community Forums on Social Indicators;128
15.3; Other Interventions;129
15.4; Southern Poverty Law Center;130
15.5; Anti-defamation League;131
15.6; Anti-materialism;132
15.7; Economic Policies;132
15.8; Buddhism;132
15.9; Hinduism;133
15.10; Confucianism;133
15.11; Christianity;135
15.12; Public Policies;136
15.13; The Mayo Clinic;136
15.14; The Government in Industrial Democracies;137
15.15; Foundations;137
15.16; Interventions;139
15.16.1; Organization and Policy;139
15.16.2; Interpersonal;140
16;References;141
17;Index;150