title: [Qualities of life and happiness].
abstract: The phrase 'quality of life' is actually misleading. The designation suggests that the issue has to do with 1 quality, whereas in fact more qualities of life are indicated. Four of these qualities are: 1. the 'livability' of the surroundings, 2. the 'life-abilities' of the individual, 3. the 'utility of life' and 4. the subjective 'satisfaction' with a person's own life. The various qualities cannot meaningfully be collected together in an index. The most comprehensive measure of quality of life is how long and happily a person lives. The relationship between that and oral health has still hardly been studied.
authors.affiliation: Uit de Afdeling Sociologie van de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam in Rotterdam. veenhoven@fsw.eur.nl
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Veenhoven
mesh_terms: D006240:Happiness; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D009909:Oral Health; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012649:Self Concept