Progress in Nurturing Human Well-Being

The critical role of nurturing environments for promoting human well-being.

The recent Institute of Medicine report on prevention (National Research Council & Institute of Medicine, 2009) noted the substantial interrelationship among mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and pointed out that, to a great extent, these problems stem from a set of common conditions. However, despite the evidence, current research and practice continue to deal with the prevention of ...

Measuring global progress through subjective well-being

Progress could in principle be measured through the change over time of average scores of subjective well-being. However, the existing longitudinal data show little improvement. These survey results are intrinsically insensitive to developments over time, because SWB is typically evaluated relative to proximate, and therefore salient, reference points, such as peers or expectations based on rec...

Understanding Human Well - being

Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) Accounting: Relating Ecological Integrity to Human Health and Well-being

Indicators are critical for monitoring the health of humans. They also are critical for monitoring the health of ecological systems, society, and the economy. Indicators provide vital signs to citizens and decision-makers about trends in the condition of human, social, and natural capital. Indicators of health can be used as an early warning system of risks to human health and hence of the sust...

Does Globalization Affect Human Well-being?

The prevailing theorizing of globalization’s influence of human well-being suggests to assess both the favorable and unfavorable outcomes. This study formulates a dialectical model, adopts a comprehensive globalization measure and uses a three-wave panel data during 1980-2000 to empirically test direct and indirect effects of global flows’ human consequences. The outcomes from random effect mod...