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Psychological wellbeing, physical impairments and rural aging in a developing country setting

BACKGROUND There has been very little research on wellbeing, physical impairments and disability in older people in developing countries. METHODS A community survey of 1147 older parents, one per household, aged sixty and over in rural Thailand. We used the Burvill scale of physical impairment, the Thai Psychological Wellbeing Scale and the brief WHO Disability Assessment Schedule. We rated r...

Towards a Conceptual Framework for Social Wellbeing through Inclusive Frugal ICT innovation in Postcolonial Collectivist contexts

Information and Communications Technologies for Development (ICT4D) researchers regard ICT innovation as critical to the social wellbeing of the marginalized in developing countries. However, an understanding of how various political, economic and socio-cultural contexts enable or constrain the influence of inclusive frugal ICT innovation on the marginalized in developing countries remains inad...

Using Subjective Measures of Wellbeing in Developing Countries

Gender inequalities in mental wellbeing in 26 European countries: do welfare regimes matter?

BACKGROUND Nature and extent of welfare regimes and social policies are important determinants of health and health inequalities. This study examines the association of gender and mental wellbeing in European countries and investigates whether type of welfare regime plays a role in this association. METHOD Data of 19 366 women and 14 338 men of the third round of the European Quality of Life ...

Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books

Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora derived from millions of digitized books. While existing measures of subjective wellbeing go back to at most the 1970s, we can go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse...