The document discusses shortcomings of GDP as a measure of societal well-being and proposes alternative metrics that provide a more comprehensive assessment. It recommends considering measures of household income and consumption, wealth, inequality, non-market activities, sustainability, health, education, work-life balance, civic participation, social connections, environmental quality, and personal security. A multidimensional approach is needed to evaluate quality of life and inform policy decisions.
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India, the country of uniqueness, knowledge and purity. Literature on family studies in India has grown to a large extent in the last two decades, although such studies are scattered. This paper presents some untold truth on families in India aiming to provide bases for analyzing research, particularly in the area of family development. By observing the furious scenario of socio familial stress and violence, one can easily realize the need of this paper. Indian families are classified as patrilineal and matrilineal according to the lineage or descent by father or mother. The family structure is conceptualized as the configuration of role, power, and status and relationships in the family which depends upon the families socio economic background, family pattern, and extent of urbanization. Marriage practices are emphasized covering subjects such as marriage patterns, selection of marriage partner, age at marriage, age at consummation of marriage, marriage rituals, financial exchanges and divorce. In spite of urbanization and industrialization in the contemporary Indian society, the family institution continues to play a central role in the lives of people. There are many social practices, responsible for putting pressure on a person unnecessarily. This stress is a major contributing factor for a series of psychological disturbances, like Depression, Frustration, Suicidal tendency etc these in turn leads to several physical problems, like Diabetes mellitus, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, several Cardio vascular disturbances e.t.c. Anupam Mandal | Dr. Sinchan Das "Effects of Social Responsibility in the Production of Stress" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25244.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/psychology/25244/effects-of-social-responsibility-in-the-production-of-stress/anupam-mandal
Putting well being metrics into policy action, Alonzo PloughStatsCommunications
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To understand how we impact our communities and how our communitie.docxedwardmarivel
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Drawing from the notion of social agency, it means that as an individual, I impact people around me be they immediate (i.e. my family, friends) or secondary (people in my church, people in my school). Public Health as a social concern from an individual viewpoint is something that a person chooses to pay attention to, for the purpose of managing risk for the self and for his family/community. If for example I have an outgoing personality, and I am genetically predisposed to have the allergies on the onset of Spring due to Pollen and I suffer from it, I would more than likely take up an advocacy to help children and others who suffer the same, especially if I am in that particular stage of life - the late adult stage where I am seeking to care for others, to leave a legacy. I would probably band together with others who have the same concerns and create awareness programs in the community or to move certain things to happen - i.e. free clinics to help sufferers, creation of Smartphone Apps that measure pollen concentration in the air, etc. Essentially, individual factors are those attributes that one has that can likely impact his or her social agent actions with regards to a particular concern (i.e. Public Health) to the self and to the community. If the attributes point to an introverted, uncaring teen - then concerns of advocating helping others should not be expected. Expect instead a likely demand from elders ...
Ageing is an important physiological phenomenon faced by all living individuals that is multifactorial and complex. The causation is still a matter of controversy. There is a lack of consensus regarding the appropriate age of ageing, though most of the countries uses chronological ages.
This presentation is regarding active ageing that builds up framework that will help the elderly mass to live a disease free active life with active participation and security in life.
This presentation also describes the different challenges faced by the elderly population for active ageing.
Government of India has been working for the aged population and there has been a number of policies and programmes that are solely dedicated to the elderly masses that has been also described here.
Effects of Social Responsibility in the Production of Stressijtsrd
India, the country of uniqueness, knowledge and purity. Literature on family studies in India has grown to a large extent in the last two decades, although such studies are scattered. This paper presents some untold truth on families in India aiming to provide bases for analyzing research, particularly in the area of family development. By observing the furious scenario of socio familial stress and violence, one can easily realize the need of this paper. Indian families are classified as patrilineal and matrilineal according to the lineage or descent by father or mother. The family structure is conceptualized as the configuration of role, power, and status and relationships in the family which depends upon the families socio economic background, family pattern, and extent of urbanization. Marriage practices are emphasized covering subjects such as marriage patterns, selection of marriage partner, age at marriage, age at consummation of marriage, marriage rituals, financial exchanges and divorce. In spite of urbanization and industrialization in the contemporary Indian society, the family institution continues to play a central role in the lives of people. There are many social practices, responsible for putting pressure on a person unnecessarily. This stress is a major contributing factor for a series of psychological disturbances, like Depression, Frustration, Suicidal tendency etc these in turn leads to several physical problems, like Diabetes mellitus, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, several Cardio vascular disturbances e.t.c. Anupam Mandal | Dr. Sinchan Das "Effects of Social Responsibility in the Production of Stress" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25244.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/psychology/25244/effects-of-social-responsibility-in-the-production-of-stress/anupam-mandal
Putting well being metrics into policy action, Alonzo PloughStatsCommunications
Putting Well-being Metrics into Policy Action, 3-4 October 2019, Paris, France. More information at: http://www.oecd.org/statistics/putting-well-being-metrics-into-policy-action.htm
To understand how we impact our communities and how our communitie.docxedwardmarivel
To understand how we impact our communities and how our communities impact us, we don't have to look no further than the concept of socialization. Socialization is the process whereby we as individuals acquire cultural and social skills essential for us to survive in society - language, knowledge, traditions, ways of doing, thinking and making, views about the world, religion, philosophies - all these we learn 2 ways: formally and informally. At home we learn from our parents & relatives, in school from our teachers and from our classmates, in the community - in church, in market places, in sports clubs, in restaurants - generally in places or sites where human interaction happens. When we interact, we talk to each other, we learn from each other. Just as we observe others, they also observe us and we together experience the interaction. How we react in it, what we learn from it leads us to create meaning, new ideas and information that we add to our knowledge database, our experience. This shapes us - our ways, our personalities. Formally we can learn from a rigid set of instructions like in classrooms or on training programs as companies provide their employees. Informally, we always get socialized every day, as long as we interact with others or learn about our world. We even get socialized through the media - TV, radio, internet - we get to know ourselves, our world and discover who we are and who we are not via this. This is because society is a social agency where socialization happens and we as individuals are social agents.
Drawing from the notion of social agency, it means that as an individual, I impact people around me be they immediate (i.e. my family, friends) or secondary (people in my church, people in my school). Public Health as a social concern from an individual viewpoint is something that a person chooses to pay attention to, for the purpose of managing risk for the self and for his family/community. If for example I have an outgoing personality, and I am genetically predisposed to have the allergies on the onset of Spring due to Pollen and I suffer from it, I would more than likely take up an advocacy to help children and others who suffer the same, especially if I am in that particular stage of life - the late adult stage where I am seeking to care for others, to leave a legacy. I would probably band together with others who have the same concerns and create awareness programs in the community or to move certain things to happen - i.e. free clinics to help sufferers, creation of Smartphone Apps that measure pollen concentration in the air, etc. Essentially, individual factors are those attributes that one has that can likely impact his or her social agent actions with regards to a particular concern (i.e. Public Health) to the self and to the community. If the attributes point to an introverted, uncaring teen - then concerns of advocating helping others should not be expected. Expect instead a likely demand from elders ...
Ageing is an important physiological phenomenon faced by all living individuals that is multifactorial and complex. The causation is still a matter of controversy. There is a lack of consensus regarding the appropriate age of ageing, though most of the countries uses chronological ages.
This presentation is regarding active ageing that builds up framework that will help the elderly mass to live a disease free active life with active participation and security in life.
This presentation also describes the different challenges faced by the elderly population for active ageing.
Government of India has been working for the aged population and there has been a number of policies and programmes that are solely dedicated to the elderly masses that has been also described here.
Socio Cultural Factors Related to Health and Disease Aditya Sharma
Socio Cultural Factors Related to Health and Disease
PPT
Heredity
Environment
Lifestyle
Socio-economic conditions
Health services
Education
Income
Housing
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Presentation at the National Rural Health Association: Rural Multiracial & Multicultural Heath Conference (2012). Discusses the social context of farmworker experiences and the impacts on farmworker health. Concludes with summary of Farmworker Justice's approach to addressing health inequalities experienced by farmworker communities.
In this Position Paper, Rivera and Santos analyze some socio-economic and psychological indicators on Children's well-being in Europe.
They consider that well-being is at the foremost position of national and international political agendas due to increased concerns of how to implement effective and sustainable policies,
which implies evidence-based design and, in consequence, to properly measure societies’
progress and welfare.
The OECD’s Better Life Initiative, presented in OECD (2011), identifies three pillars for understanding and measuring people’s well-being: 1) Material living conditions (or economic wellbeing), 2) Quality of life, and 3) the Sustainability of the socio-economic and
natural systems.
The authors highlight the relevance of including indicators such as social connections and civic engagement. Both are relevant for children, particularly from a human rights perspective that considers their participation and strong socio-cultural relations as relevant for a stable and consistent development.
Rivera and Santos consider well-being a central topic for constructing children’s social policies, mainly for these reasons:
1) World leaders of 192 states have made commitments to children through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), and the Millennium Declaration. Investing in child-sensitive development is key to empowering children’s rights and reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
2) Investing in children’s well-being also has significant potential payoffs for economic growth which, in turn, translates to greater productivity, sustainable growth and lower child and infant mortality. Thus, it is crucial in breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty.
3) Finally, investing in children means that countries are at a better position to receive the crop that they have seed in the form of qualified and better adults who contribute to society and economy, and help build social cohesion.
This presentation by Nancy Hey, Director of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing provides:
• An introduction to the mission of the Centre
• What wellbeing is, how it’s defined and measured and why it matters
• Explains the link between wellbeing, a fairer society and making the economic case for prevention
• Describes key factors that influence wellbeing building on the UK’s world-leading science
• Shows how wellbeing can be a powerful tool for public health and as a public health outcome in its own right
Socio Cultural Factors Related to Health and Disease Aditya Sharma
Socio Cultural Factors Related to Health and Disease
PPT
Heredity
Environment
Lifestyle
Socio-economic conditions
Health services
Education
Income
Housing
The Social Determinants of Health and Farmworkerszamaka7
Presentation at the National Rural Health Association: Rural Multiracial & Multicultural Heath Conference (2012). Discusses the social context of farmworker experiences and the impacts on farmworker health. Concludes with summary of Farmworker Justice's approach to addressing health inequalities experienced by farmworker communities.
In this Position Paper, Rivera and Santos analyze some socio-economic and psychological indicators on Children's well-being in Europe.
They consider that well-being is at the foremost position of national and international political agendas due to increased concerns of how to implement effective and sustainable policies,
which implies evidence-based design and, in consequence, to properly measure societies’
progress and welfare.
The OECD’s Better Life Initiative, presented in OECD (2011), identifies three pillars for understanding and measuring people’s well-being: 1) Material living conditions (or economic wellbeing), 2) Quality of life, and 3) the Sustainability of the socio-economic and
natural systems.
The authors highlight the relevance of including indicators such as social connections and civic engagement. Both are relevant for children, particularly from a human rights perspective that considers their participation and strong socio-cultural relations as relevant for a stable and consistent development.
Rivera and Santos consider well-being a central topic for constructing children’s social policies, mainly for these reasons:
1) World leaders of 192 states have made commitments to children through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), and the Millennium Declaration. Investing in child-sensitive development is key to empowering children’s rights and reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
2) Investing in children’s well-being also has significant potential payoffs for economic growth which, in turn, translates to greater productivity, sustainable growth and lower child and infant mortality. Thus, it is crucial in breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty.
3) Finally, investing in children means that countries are at a better position to receive the crop that they have seed in the form of qualified and better adults who contribute to society and economy, and help build social cohesion.
This presentation by Nancy Hey, Director of the What Works Centre for Wellbeing provides:
• An introduction to the mission of the Centre
• What wellbeing is, how it’s defined and measured and why it matters
• Explains the link between wellbeing, a fairer society and making the economic case for prevention
• Describes key factors that influence wellbeing building on the UK’s world-leading science
• Shows how wellbeing can be a powerful tool for public health and as a public health outcome in its own right
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El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
El informe CPPI utiliza dos enfoques metodológicos diferentes para calcular la clasificación del índice: uno administrativo o técnico y otro estadístico, basado en análisis factorial (FA). Según los autores, esta dualidad pretende asegurar una clasificación que refleje con precisión el rendimiento real del puerto, a la vez que sea estadísticamente sólida. En esta edición del informe CPPI 2023, se han empleado los mismos enfoques metodológicos y se ha aplicado un método de agregación de clasificaciones para combinar los resultados de ambos enfoques y obtener una clasificación agregada.
Here is Gabe Whitley's response to my defamation lawsuit for him calling me a rapist and perjurer in court documents.
You have to read it to believe it, but after you read it, you won't believe it. And I included eight examples of defamatory statements/
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An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
2. Jean-Paul Fitoussi,
Joseph Stiglitz,
Coordinator
President Amartya Sen,
Advisor
Nobel Prize
(2001), John Nobel Prize
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Medal (1979) and
Vice President of
the World Bank
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2. Debates about the right concepts to use
3. Current statistics may not capture certain phenomenon
that affect well-being
4. The way we use and interpret statistics may be wrong
4. “The welfare of a nation can scarcely be
inferred from a measure of national income.”
5. Current Sustainability
levels of of these
well-being levels
6. It is dangerous to confuse GDP with well-being
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emphasize the household perspective consider income
with an eye on wealth give prominence to distribution
broaden income measures to non-market activities
7. Trends in people’s living standards are better followed
through measures of household income and consumption
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household perspective consider income with an
eye on wealth give prominence to distribution broaden income
measures to non-market activities
8. If a household spends its wealth on consumptions goods,
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its future well-being
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9. Too often rely on average measures
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10. There have been major changes to how households and
societies function
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14. These include the length and the quality of people’s lives
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relationships environment personal and economic
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15. Education matters for quality of life in ways that are
independent of income
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relationships environment personal and economic
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16. We need to understand paid work, unpaid work, commuting
time and leisure time
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work political voice and governance social connections and
relationships environment personal and economic insecurity
17. When the political institutions support and enable
participation they improve quality of life
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relationships environment personal and economic insecurity
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improved health and a better chance of finding a job
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19. Means more than using our resources sustainably
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Editor's Notes
In 2008, Nicholas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, asked prominent economists to improve on the currently available statistics on the economy and society.
He asked Joseph Stiglitz, AmartyaSen and Jean-Paul Fitoussi to create a commission to address this problem. It was called the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress. I will simply refer to it as the Commission. Why should we be concerned about these numbers? We need to be concerned because economic data informs (or should inform) the decisions of our governments. If we are using the wrong numbers or interpreting numbers in the wrong way the decisions we make and our governments make will be flawed. I was once asked, “If these numbers are so important, why do they seem to be so out of touch with reality?” This is a reasonable question. We hear news reports about GDP growth or levels of unemployment and they seem inaccurate. I’ve heard many people respond to GDP growth with comments that can be paraphrased as, “I don’t know how they got those numbers, but they sure haven’t asked me!”
There are a number of potential reasons for this gap:Concepts may be correct, but the measurement process is wrongThere are debates about what are the right concepts to useCurrent statistics may not capture certain phenomenon that affect well-beingThe way we use and interpret statistics may be wrong
There is increasing concern about the effectiveness of current measures of economic performance, especially those that are based solely on GDP. These limitations were even recognized by the inventory of GDP: “"The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income."
Instead, what is needed is to determine current well-being and to place this discussion within a larger discussion and context of sustainability. This doesn’t mean that we dismiss GDP and other measures of production, but that we limit their use to matters of measures and production, not well-being. This means that we must develop a system to measure quality of life that complements measures of market activity. This system needs to capture a plurality of variables – both material and non-material – and we need to understand how these variables are related to one another. Let’s start with the Commission’s thoughts on the material elements of well-being.
They make five recommendations:We need to look at income and consumption because GDP mainly measures market production and it is dangerous to confuse it with well-being. More accurate measures of well-being are net national income, real household income and consumption.
We need to emphasize the household perspective because trends in people’s living standards are better followed through measures of household income and consumption. In a number of countries real household income has followed a different path from real GDP and typically at a lower rate.
We must consider income and consumption with an eye on wealth. A more accurate picture of a household’s balance sheet would provide an accurate picture of wealth and this is necessary to measure the sustainability of well-being.
We too often rely on average measures of income, consumption and wealth, but they do not paint an accurate picture. When we give more prominence to the distribution of these factors we are able to more thoroughly understand the current state of material well-being.
We need to broaden income measures to non-market activities because there have been major changes to how households and societies function. In the past, there were certain services family members provided, but are now purchased in the market. When this shift started, it created the false impression of a change in living standards.
To make this more obvious, I’d like to compare two families. The first family is a two-parent household with two children that earns $50,000 per year. One parent works outside of the home and the other takes care of cooking, shopping and childcare. This means that they do not need to devote any of their income to these activities.
The second family is again a two-parent family with two children that makes $50,000 per year. However, both parents work. They must pay for cooking, shopping and childcare out of pocket. This means family number two’s income is reduced. Obviously, family number two does not have the same level of material well-being as family number one, but conventional economic measures treat both families the same way. This needs to change. However, as I said earlier, well-being is multi-dimensional. The Commission recognizes that there is more to well-being than monetary and they point to non-monetary subjective and objective measures that we need to know to accurately measure well-being.
There are three approaches that are useful when thinking about how to measure non-monetary quality of life factors:Subjective well-beingCapabilities approachFair allocations approachAll approaches agree that there are non-monetary factors that affect people’s quality of life. The subjective factors ask people to evaluate the various dimensions of their lives, such as family or work life, and they also assess people’s actual feelings, such as pain or worry. The capabilities and fair distribution approaches identify several important objective non-monetary features of well-being.
These include the length and the quality of people’s lives.
Education improves skills and competencies that are essential to economic production. Education matters for quality of life in ways that are independent of income. It improves life evaluations, health, they have lower unemployment, more social connections and are more involved in civic life.
How people spend their time also matters for their quality of life and, like education, it matters independent of income. We need to understand paid work, unpaid work, commuting time and leisure time.
When people have a chance to participate in the political process and when the political institutions support and enable this participation they improve quality of life for the people in that country.
Social connections, or social capital, also affect the quality of life in many different ways: the more social connections, the higher life-evaluation, improved health and a better chance of finding a job.
Environmental conditions mean more than using our resources sustainably, although that is a part of it. Environmental conditions affect health, people are benefited by having access to clear water and other environmental services, people value environment and this valuation affects their choices and environmental conditions can lead to climate changes and natural disasters.
Insecurity can be either personal or economic security. Personal insecurity arises from factors that put our personal integrity at risk, such as, crime, natural disasters or other accidents. Economic insecurity encompasses matters like unemployment, illness and retirement concerns.
According to the Commission, it is also important to understand the variations and disparities in quality of life measures, we need to understand how these factors relate to one another and we need to try to combine these measures in a single indicator in as simple a way as possible.
Finally, the discussion of well-being must be placed in the context of sustainability. Sustainability means determining if at least the current level of well-being can be maintained for future generations. This involves measuring the future and measuring the future involves many assumptions. The Commission makes several recommendations to help with this process. Sustainability assessment requires a dashboard of indicators that are a variation of some underlying ‘stocks’, such as quantities and qualities of natural resources and of human, social and physical capital. According to the Commission, there is also a need for an indicator of our proximity to levels of environmental damage that will lead to a natural disaster.
The Commission’s report has confirmed things that many people have intuitively known for some time, for example, that GDP doesn’t measure up as an indicator of well-being. But it has made significant steps forward to identify improve on the material factors of well-being and they have proposed a set of variables that contribute to people’s non-material factors of well-being.