By Sara Fuller, Sarah Atkinson, Joe Painter

The final two decades have witnessed an incredible circulate within the aspirations of public coverage past assembly in simple terms fabric pursuits in the direction of a number results captured by using the time period 'wellbeing'. still, the idea that of well being is itself ill-defined. Bringing jointly more than a few views, this quantity examines the intersections of wellness and position, together with rapid utilized policy  Read more...

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How can children tell us about wellbeing? Exploring the potential of participatory research approaches within Young Lives. Social Indicators Research, 90, 51-7. , Bondi, L. and Smith, M. (eds) 2005. Emotional Geographies. Aldershot: Ashgate. Day, P. and Pearce, J. 2011. Obesity-Promoting Food Environments and the Spatial Clustering of Food Outlets Around Schools, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 40(2), 113-21. P. and Spreeuwenberg, P. 2003. Natural environments – healthy environments? An exploratory analysis of the relationship between greenspace and health.

Auckland, the country’s largest urban centre by some margin, scored lowest on both the Happiness and Satisfaction with Life measures (the affective and cognitive dimensions of subjective wellbeing respectively). However self-reported Quality of Life amongst Auckland respondents was better than what the city’s population density and intra-urban commuting might suggest. Morrison suggested that Auckland’s relatively favourable evaluation on this measure might reflect the work and income possibilities associated with a dynamic labour market, or relate to environmental factors such as the favourable climate, neither of which were considered in the survey.

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