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This 2nd edition is a definitive resource on issues pertaining to the full range of topics in scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research. Altogether 500 new and updated entries appear in this new edition. This single, multidimensional reference work connects the most salient and important contributions to the relevant fields from the behavioral and social sciences as well as health and healthcare. New topics in this 2nd edition are on disabilities, religion/spirituality, sex, sports, politics, government, science, literature, performance and visual arts, environmental quality and sustainable development. The 2nd edition of the Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-being Research is an indispensable reference point for future research and writing topics on quality of life.
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"Community Accounts": Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.- Aboriginal Community Well-Being Index.- Aboriginal Peoples Survey, Canada (APS).- Accessibility.- Acquiescence Response Set.- Action Research.- Active Ageing and Personal Wellbeing Among Older Adults in Spain.- Active Citizenship.- Active Coping.- Activities of Daily Living (ADL).- Activities of Daily Vision Scale.- Activity Assessment.- Acute Myocardial Infarction.- Adaptation-Level Theory.- Addiction Severity Index.- Addiction: An Overview.- Adolescent Health-Risk and Problem Behavior.- Adolescent Life Satisfaction Measurement.- Adolescent Substance Use.- Adolescents and Spirituality.
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Filomena Maggino is a Full Professor of Social Statistics at the Sapienza University of Rome. She is also Coordinator of the Department for Integral Wellbeing at the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis. She previously was Advisor to the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte from 2018 to 2021 and President of "Control Room Benessere Italia," under the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers from 2019 to 2021.
Prof. Maggino’s scientific interests and research expertise include: indicators (definition and construction, systems, synthesis, social indicators); statistics and complexity (statistical analysis in complex system; forecasting in complex systems); survey design and analysis (questionnaire construction and definition, and sampling design); Big Data (in official statistics and social indicators; data mining); representing and communicating complex data; statistics and political communication; and applications to measuring the quality of life, quality of society, inequalities and analyzing the well-being of nations.
She is Editor-in-Chief of the Social Indicators Research journal (Springer) and has authored, edited and co-edited several publications, volumes, and books, mainly in international contexts. In addition, she is also President and co-founder of the Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies and Scientific Director and co-founder of the Cyber Security and International Relations Laboratory (CIRLab) and was Past-president of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies and chair and organizer of two ISQOLS conferences (Florence, 2009; Venice, 2012). She has also been an advisor to several governmental organizations and member of numerous national and international committees, international associations, editorial boards of scientific journals, and scientific committees of national and international conferences. Prof. Maggino has been chair and organizer of several international and national scientific conferences and been invited as keynote speaker and lecturer all over the world, and awarded with several recognitions for her work—including the Officer of the Order "Of Merit of the Italian Republic".
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