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Sen and the art of quality of life maintenance: towards a general theory of quality of life and its causation
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Sen's capability approach permits re-appraisal of a central concept in health and social care, and international development - 'quality of life' (QoL). We compare Sen's capability view of QoL with current views in health care, and re-define QoL as 'the gap between desired and actual capabilities'. A causal pathway linking resources to capabilities, and finally to QoL, is postulated. The notion of 'cognitive homeostasis' is introduced to explain the observed curvilinear relationship between re...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Journal:
- Journal of Socioeconomics Journal website
- Volume:
- 36
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 397-423
- Publication date:
- 2007-06-01
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- ISSN:
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1053-5357
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:3006
- Deposit date:
- 2009-11-05
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- Elsevier Inc
- Copyright date:
- 2007
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- The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy/DOI links from this page. An earlier version of this paper 'Sen and the art of quality of life maintenance: towards a working definition of quality of life' is available in ORA (http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f5f33b23-ed21-4ca8-a3a5-c748f6793a28). N.B. Dr Camfield is now based at the Department of International Development, University of Oxford.
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