Abstract
There is no consensus about how to define well-being nor a common well-being index to measure global wellness, which affect the reproducibility of research. Without a common concepts or index, measuring well-being in the mental health field is a challenged goal. A several objectives and subjective parameters were developed but they are still controversial. Which one choose is still a dilemma. Subjective parameters were usually classified in salutogenic with hedonic or Eudemonic approaches. Objectives parameters were developed in several domain as economic, social, cultural, geographic, and health but is it is a still a lack in the mental health field and some domains. Indeed, in some domain measuring well-being is still underdeveloped. In the same vein, culture could affect the perception of negative or positive emotions as fear or anger. Context matters to measure community well-being so should we measure well-being by country and add all those measures to get a global measure of well-being or developing a common model? In this paper, we highlight controversies when measuring well-being for better understanding and we propose some issues to policy makers to improve their strategies to measure well-being.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
KEYWORDS
Well-being. Subjectives and objectives parameters. Mental health. Systemic and critical
