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MEASURING HUMAN WELLNESS

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A conceptual framework is presented as a means to organize the many measures of human wellness that are now available. Health and human wellness are now often used interchangeably and there has been considerable augmentation of the indicators of progress – in addition to traditional indicators such as life expectancy and mortality rates, there is now an ability to use more positive indicators such as self-related health and self-esteem.

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  1. Office of the Province Health Officer, 3nd Floor, 1810 Blanshand Street, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8V 1X4

    J.S. MIllar & C. Hull

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  1. J.S. MIllar
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MIllar, J., Hull, C. MEASURING HUMAN WELLNESS. Social Indicators Research 40, 147–158 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006803426777

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