Human well-being in the Anthropocene: limits to growth

Personal Well - Being during Growth

This paper considers the relative importance of improvements in economic status in explaining improvements in non-monetary measures of well-being during Vietnam's economic boom in the 1990s. This study finds that improvements in economic status can explain virtually all of the 20 percent increase in schooling attainment and most of the observed improvements in child nutrition and declines in ch...

Understanding Human Well - being

Fetal growth and well-being.

Accurate monitoring of fetal growth is one of the most critically important components of prenatal care. Whether too large or too small for gestational age, the ramifications of abnormal fetal growth have both short-term and long-term sequelae for early neonatal life and beyond. Although not perfectly accurate, ultrasound and other monitoring technologies have markedly improved the ability to f...

Economic Growth, Technological Change, and Human Well-Being

if present trends continue, the world in 2000 will be more crowded, more polluted, less stable ecologically, and more vulnerable to disruption than the world we live in now. Serious stresses involving population, resources, and environment are clearly visible ahead. Despite greater material output, the world’s people will be poorer in many ways than they are today. The Global 2000 Report to the...

Identifying Managers’ Mental Patterns in Relation to Subjective Well-being of Human Resource of Organization, Using the Q-method

Intorduction: It is necessary to notice the subjective well-being  and satisfaction of human resources in organizations and lack of attention to them has deleterious effects on individual and organizational performance. Method: The present study is a mixed (qualitative and quantitative)  research which used the Q approach to examine and explain managers’ mental patterns regarding Subjective We...