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Quality of Life: Policy Concept and Reality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2014

TAKU YAMAMOTO
TAKU YAMAMOTO*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Hosei University, Tokyoy-taku@hosei.ac.jp
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Abstract

This study examines the process by which the concept of quality of life has been increasing in importance as the key to ASEAN's socio-cultural integration. This study also focuses on the current trend that emphasizes subjective quality of life and clarifies that ASEAN has been moving toward including this perspective. Then, it analyzes the subjective quality of life of people in ASEAN in terms of self-assessment and the multidimensional World Health Organization Quality of Life metric by using data from the ASEAN Barometer 2009.

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Japanese Journal of Political Science , Volume 15 , Issue 2: Quality of Life and Environmentalism in ASEAN , June 2014 , pp. 163 - 182
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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