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Present trends and future directions of quality-of-life

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 field. Being a rich concept, QOL studies can be construed in differen...

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Main Author: Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014
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HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
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spelling my.iium.irep.393872018-06-11T02:59:10Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/39387/ Present trends and future directions of quality-of-life Mohit, Mohammad Abdul HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology 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 field. 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. Elsevier 2014-11 Article REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39387/1/1-s2.0-S1877042814055396-main.pdf Mohit, Mohammad Abdul (2014) Present trends and future directions of quality-of-life. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 153. pp. 655-665. ISSN 1877-0428 http://www.sciencedirect.com doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.097
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topic HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
spellingShingle HT101 Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
Mohit, Mohammad Abdul
Present trends and future directions of quality-of-life
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 field. 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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