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Quality of life (QoL) is a relatively new concept, having appeared only at the end of the 1960s; since then, its growth as a research issue has been exponential. QoL emerged from two different contexts: sociopolitical and biomedical. At that time, socioeconomic measures were the main indicators for assessing the growth and development of populations and individuals. As Wilson (1968) stated, there were increasing signs of discontent with the continued use of traditional measures of economic, political, and social progress: per capita income and gross national product were not conceptually designed to measure changes in a global political and socioeconomic environment that was pursuing a “new frontier.” Therefore, it was necessary to develop a set of social indicatorsfor assessing the quality of life of a given population in relation to important policy decisions, hence the concept of social indicators as aggregate or representative welfare measures: individual...
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Fernandez-Ballesteros, R., Santacreu, M. (2014). Quality of Life: Problematic Issues. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3787
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