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Also known as wellbeing, human well-being, human wellbeing

thumb|upright=1.35|alt=Photo of a group of children that are sitting outside, smiling, and laughing|Positive interpersonal relationships contribute to well-being.

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quality of life
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topic's main category
Category:Well-being
Commons category
Well-being
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health
relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator
Sustainable Development Goal 3
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Encyclopedic overview

27 sections
Contents
  • Definition
  • Types
  • Subjective and objective well-being
  • Individual and community well-being
  • Other types
  • Theories of well-being
  • Hedonism
  • Desire theories
  • Objective list theories
  • Others
  • Components and contributing factors
  • Feelings, emotions, and life satisfaction
  • Achievements and meaning
  • Friendship and other relationships
  • Health and disabilities
  • Other components
  • Models
  • In various fields
  • Positive psychology
  • Philosophy
  • Other fields
  • See also
  • References
  • Notes
  • Citations
  • Sources
  • External links

thumb|upright=1.35|alt=Photo of a group of children that are sitting outside, smiling, and laughing|Positive interpersonal relationships contribute to well-being.

Well-being is what is ultimately good for a person. Also called "welfare" and "quality of life", it is a measure of how well life is going for someone. It is a central goal of many individual and societal endeavors.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “well-being” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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