Utopia, health, and happiness

Health, happiness and health promotion.

This article claims that health promotion is best practiced in the light of an Aristotelian conception of the good life for humans and of the place of health within it.

Housing , Health and Happiness

Despite the importance of housing for people’s well-being, there is little evidence on the causal impact of housing and housing improvement programs on health and welfare. In this paper, we help to fill this gap by investigating the impact of a largescale effort by the Mexican Government to replace dirt floors with cement floors on child health and adult happiness. We find that replacing dirt f...

Happiness and health: Potential related factors

As a temporary emotional situation and a relatively stable state of being happy (subjective happiness level), happiness can be considered. In fact, people with high subjective happiness level think more positively than others. There are many factors with potential positive or negative effects on happiness such as: the (dark and milky) chocolate, Yoga, outdoor group walks in the natural en...

Happiness and health: two paradoxes

Happiness, social networks, and health.

Two linked studies, by Fowler and Christakis, and Cohen-Cole and Fletcher, relate to the transmission of health related factors through social networks.1 2 The concept underlying this new field of research is that behaviours may spread over time from one person to another through their immediate and more distant social contacts. Social epidemiology has established the relevance of social connec...