An overview of QOL studies in Malaysia: present trends and future directions

Quality-of-life (QOL) is a multifaceted concept and it has attracted the attention of researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines as well as interest among policy makers, planners and others in the environmental design fields. Being a rich concept, QOL studies can be construed in differ...

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Main Author: Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
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spelling my.iium.irep.34006 http://irep.iium.edu.my/34006/ An overview of QOL studies in Malaysia: present trends and future directions Mohit, Mohammad Abdul HT51 Human settlements. Communities Quality-of-life (QOL) is a multifaceted concept and it has attracted the attention of researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines as well as interest among policy makers, planners and others in the environmental design fields. Being a rich concept, QOL studies can be construed in different perspectives like health approach, needs approach, happiness versus life satisfaction and the resource management approach. Although QOL research in Malaysia started in 1987, progress is slow. This paper provides an overview of the present trends of QOL research by highlighting the disciplinary and spatial bias and finally, suggests future directions of QOL research in Malaysia. 2014-01 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/34006/1/mohit.pdf Mohit, Mohammad Abdul (2014) An overview of QOL studies in Malaysia: present trends and future directions. In: AMER International Conference on Quality of Life (AicQoL 2014), 4th-5th Jan. 2014, The Pacific Sutera Hotel, Sutera Harbour, Kota Kinabau, Sabah. http://www.amerabra.org
institution Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia
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Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
An overview of QOL studies in Malaysia: present trends and future directions
description Quality-of-life (QOL) is a multifaceted concept and it has attracted the attention of researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines as well as interest among policy makers, planners and others in the environmental design fields. Being a rich concept, QOL studies can be construed in different perspectives like health approach, needs approach, happiness versus life satisfaction and the resource management approach. Although QOL research in Malaysia started in 1987, progress is slow. This paper provides an overview of the present trends of QOL research by highlighting the disciplinary and spatial bias and finally, suggests future directions of QOL research in Malaysia.
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author Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
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