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Cham : Springer, 2017

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ISBN 978-3-319-51161-0 (e-kniha)

ISBN 978-3-319-51160-3 (print)

This volume connects aspects of personal health, overall well-being, and education to quality of life. It includes discussions of Galen’s and Harvey’s views of the movement of blood in human bodies, and differences in the research traditions of social indicators research and health-related quality of life research. It examines determinants of health and quality of life in a variety of populations, including the residents of the Bella Coola Valley of British Columbia, aboriginal residential school survivors in Canada, and diabetics versus non-diabetics. It describes relations between health survey and patients’ medical chart reviews, the health and quality of life of older people, and the difference between good health and a good life. Other topics explored are student quality of life, comparisons of the quality of life of students, aboriginal and unemployed people, the impact of education on happiness and well-being, and liberal education. In addition, the volume presents Einstein’s views of ethics and science, and unacknowledged authorship in scholarly publications. The final chapter gives a historical review of quality of life research in Canada over the past fifty years..

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1 Cost-Benefit Versus Expected Utility Acceptance Rules ...1 - Alex C. Michalos // The Problem ...1 // Maximization of Expected Utility ...2 // Cost-Benefit Dominance ...3 // Preferability and Superior Performance ...5 // MEU Versus CBD: Comparison of Requirements ...6 // Harvey’s Implicit Use of CBD ...10 // Explanatory Power ...12 // External Analogies ...13 // Simplicity ...13 // Internal Consistency ...15 // An Infelicity of MEU and CBD ...17 // Increasing the Effectiveness of CBD ...17 // Conclusion ...20 // References ...20 // 2 Social Indicators Research and Health-Related Quality of Life Research ...25 - Alex C. Michalos // Introduction ...25 // Social Indicators of the Quality of Life: Basic Definitions ...26 // Historical Origins and Motives ...30 // Explaining Happiness with Life as a Whole from Selected Domain Satisfaction Items ...32 // Explaining Happiness with Life as a Whole from Health and Other Variables ...35 // Explaining Satisfaction with One’s Own Health ...39 // Multiple Discrepancies Theory (MDT) ...40 // Health-Related Quality of Life ...44 // Conclusion ...52 // References ...54 // 3 Culture as a Moderator of Overall Life Satisfaction-Life Facet Satisfaction Relationships ...59 - Alison G.C. Mallard, Charles E. Lance and Alex C. Michalos // Introduction ...59 // Models of the OLS-LFS Relationship ...60 // Moderating Eifects of Culture on OLS-LFS Relationships ...63 // Method ...64 // Research Participants and Data Collection ...64 // Measures ...65 // Tests of BU, TD, and BD Models ...65 // Cluster Analyses ...67 // Results ...68 // Tests of BU, TD, and BD Models ...68 // Cluster Analysis ...71 // Discussion ...74 // Limitations and Directions for Future Research ...76 // References ...77 //

4 Determinants of Health and the Quality of Life in the Bella Coola Valley ...81 - Alex C. Michalos, Harvey V. Thommasen, Rua Read, Nancy Anderson and Bruno D. Zumbo // Introduction ...81 // Sample Area, Sampling Technique and Questionnaire ...82 // Sample Characteristics ...83 // Health Status Measures ...85 // Health-Related Behaviour and Exposure ...89 // Health Care ...92 // Quality of Life Measures ...93 // Bivariate Relationships: Dependent Variables ...94 // Bivariate Relationships: Determinants and Dependent Variables ...98 // Explaining Health and the Quality of Life: Multivariate Relationships ...101 // Overview of Variance Explained and Most Influential Determinants ...118 // Conclusion ...119 // References ...121 // 5 Health and Quality of Life of Aboriginal Residential School Survivors, Bella Coola Valley, 2001 ...123 - Sylvia S. Barton, Harvey V. Thommasen, Bill Tallio, William Zhang and Alex C. Michalos // Introduction ...123 // Methods ...125 // Results ...127 // Proportion of Aboriginal Residential School Survivors ...127 // Comparisons Between Aboriginal Residential School Survivors and Others ...127 // Discussion ...131 // Residential Schooling and Aboriginal Peoples in the Bella Coola Valley ...131 // Inequality in Health Confounded with Residential School Effects ...132 // Residential School Syndrome ...133 // Limitations ...133 // Conclusions ...134 // References ...134 // 6 Comparing Self-rated Health, Satisfaction and Quality of Life Scores Between Diabetics and Others Living in the Bella Coola Valley ...137 - Angela Grigg, Harvey V. Thommasen, Hugh Tildesley and Alex C. Michalos // Introduction ...137 // Methods ...139 // Results ...141 // Survey Response Rates ...141 // Discussion ...144 // Conclusion(s) ...146 // Appendix A ...147 // References ...148 //

The Relationship Between Health Survey and Medical Chart Review Results in a Rural Population ...151 - Donald C. Voaklander, Harvey V. Thommasen and Alex C. Michalos // Introduction ...151 // Methods ...152 // Community Participation ...152 // Data Collection ...153 // Analysis ...156 // Results ...157 // Sample Characteristics ...157 // Comparison of Health Problems: Survey Versus Clinic Data ...158 // Height, Weight and Obesity ...159 // Discussion ...160 // References ...162 // 8 Health and Quality of Life of Older People, a Replication After Six Years ...165 - Alex C. Michalos, P. Maurine Hatch, Dawn Hemingway, Loraine Lavallee, Anne Hogan and Bev Christensen // Introduction ...165 // Sampling Technique and Questionnaire ...166 // Sample Characteristics ...167 // Health Status According to SF-36 ...168 // Domain Satisfaction, Global Satisfaction and Happiness ...170 // Crime and Personal Safety ...173 // Issues and Troubles ...175 // Social Support and Activities ...177 // Plan of the Following Seven Sections ...178 // Explaining Health ...179 // Explaining Satisfaction with Life as a Whole ...181 // Explaining Happiness with Life as a Whole ...183 // Explaining Satisfaction with the Overall Quality of Life ...185 // Explaining SWLS Scores ...187 // Explaining CLAS Scores ...187 // Explaining SWB ...190 // Multiple Discrepancies Theory (MDT) ...191 // Conclusion ...198 // References ...199 // 9 Good Health is Not the Same as a Good Life: Survey Results from Brandon, Manitoba ...201 - Alex C. Michalos, Douglas Ramsey, Derrek Eberts and P. Maurine Kahlke // Introduction ...201 // Sampling Technique, Questionnaire and Sample Demographics ...202 // Health Status Measures ...203 // Health-Related Behaviour and Exposure ...210 // Health Care ...213 // Quality of Life Measures ...214 // Independent and Dependent Measures ...215 // Explaining Health and the Quality of Life: Multivariate Relationships ...218 //

Average of SF-36 Dimensions ...233 // Happiness ...234 // Satisfaction with Life as a Whole ...235 // Satisfaction with the Overall Quality of Life ...237 // Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) ...238 // Contentment with Life Assessment Scale (CLAS) ...238 // Subjective Wellbeing (SWB) ...239 // Overview of Variance Explained and Most Influential Determinants ...240 // Conclusion ...243 // References ...244 // 10 A Note on Student Quality of Life ...247 - Alex C. Michalos and Julie Anne Orlando // References ...254 // 11 Quality of Life of Some Under-Represented Survey Respondents: Youth, Aboriginals and Unemployed ...255 - Alex C. Michalos and Julie Anne Orlando // Introduction ...255 // Data Sources and Descriptive Statistics ...256 // Bivariate Relations ...261 // Multivariate Relations ...266 // Concluding Comments ...271 // Appendix ...273 // References ...274 // 12 Education, Happiness and Wellbeing ...277 - Alex C. Michalos // Introduction ...277 // Education as Learning ...279 // Happiness, Quality of Life and Wellbeing ...280 // Happiness as Eudaimonia ...285 // The Influence of Education on Happiness ...289 // Conclusion ...297 // References ...297 // 13 A Developmental View of Liberal Education ...301 - Alex C. Michalos // Introduction ...301 // Historical Roots ...302 // A Residualist View ...304 // Self and Social Development ...305 // Evaluation ...310 // Conclusion ...312 // 14 Einstein, Ethics and Science ...313 - Alex C. Michalos // Introduction ...313 // Einstein’s Intellectuals ...313 // Einstein ’s Ethics ...318 // Einstein’s Philosophy of Science ...320 // Conclusion ...324 // References ...325 // 15 Observations on Unacknowledged Authorship from Homer to Now ...327 - Alex C. Michalos // Introduction ...327 // Three Familiar Historic Cases ...328 // Homer: Iliad and Odyssey ...328 // Aesop: Fables ...328 // Bible: Synoptic Gospels ...329 // Fast Forward to Today ...329