Quality of Life and the Millennium Challenge: Advances in Quality-of-Life Studies, Theory and Resear

Acknowledgements. Introduction: Challenges for Quality of Life Studies in the New Millennium; Valerie Møller and Denis Huschka. Part 1: Learning from the past to inform the future. 1. South-Africa: Yesterday, today and tomorrow; John Kane-Berman. 2. Poverty and the quality of life: Learning from the South African research experience; Francis Wilson. 3. The importance of a mixed cash- and harvest herding based economy to living in the Arctic - an analysis on the Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SliCA); Birger Poppel and Jack Kruse. Part 2: Refining concepts and measurement to assess cross-cultural quality of life. 4. The International Scale Interval Study: Improving the comparability of responses to survey questions about happiness; Ruut Veenhoven. 5. More than SF-36? Using narratives to elaborate health and well-being data in recent lower-limb amputees; Narelle Warren, Lenore Manderson and RoseAnne Misajon. 6. The spiritual dimension of 'quality of life', with special reference to education and spirituality; Martin Valenkamp and Johannes L. van der Walt. Part 3: Addressing the role of stability and change in the new millennium. 7. The impact of instability on subjective well-being: a cross-national study; Ming-Chang Tsai. 8. Stability and change in national and personal wellbeing in Algeria: a case study of a developing country in transition; Habib Tiliouine. 9. 'All that glitters is not gold': Johannesburg and migrant access to social services; Rodreck Mupedziswa. Part 4: Exploring the role of good governance for a better quality of life. 10. Trust and life satisfaction in Eastern and Western Europe; Georg P. Mueller. 11. Quality of life in cities: A question of mobility and accessibility; Giampaolo Nuvolati. 12. The main determinants forsubjective well-being: a quest for the Holy Grail? Can governments enhance the perceived quality of life?; Dries Verlet and Carl Devos. Part 5: Health care - a major challenge in the new millennium. 13. On HIV/AIDS and depression; Kevin Kelly. 14. Universal coverage but unequal access? Experiences of health care in Northeast and South Thailand; Laura Camfield. 15. Prospects for community-based rehabilitation in the new millennium; Harry Finkenflügel.