QUALITY OF LIFE, HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

QUALITY OF LIFE, HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

Quality of Life, Health and Happiness

LENNART NORDENFELT Linkoping University

Avebury

Aldershot . Brookfield USA? Hong Kong' Singapore' Sydney

? Lennart Nordenfelt 1993

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Nordenfelt, Lennart Quality of Life, Health and Happiness 1. Title 613

ISBN 1 85628 553 7 Reprinted 1996

Printed and bound by Athenaeum Press, Ltd., Gateshead, Tyne & Wear.

Contents

Preface

VII

Part I On quality of life and happiness

Introduction

3

A summary of the argument of the book

7

1 Towards a characterisation of the area

11

2 Two classic theories of happiness

17

3 The framework for quality of life: Human welfare

35

4 Towards an analysis of the notion of happiness

41

Part II The medical context: Measuring health and quality of life

5 The concept of health

83

6 The concept of subjective health

103

7 To measure subjective health

113

8 To measure health and quality of life in health care I:

A Swedish instrument

123

9 To measure health and quality of life in health care II:

The idea of human needs

137

10 To measure health and quality of life in health care III:

An economic approach

147

11 Conclusions and general remarks

167

Bibliography

173

Index

181

V

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