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The aim of this encyclopedia is to provide a comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research
Since the 1960s two over-lapping but fairly distinct research communities and traditions have developed concerning ideas about the quality of life, individually and collectively, one with a fairly narrow focus on health-related issues and one with a quite broad focus. In many ways, the central issues of these fields have roots extending to the observations and speculations of ancient philosophers, creating a continuous exploration by diverse explorers in diverse historic and cultural circumstances over several centuries of the qualities of human existence. What we have not had so far is a single, multidimensional reference work connecting the most salient and important contributions to the relevant fields.
Entries will be organized alphabetically and cover basic concepts, relatively well-established facts, lawlike and causal relations, theories, methods, standardized tests, biographic entries on significant figures, organizational profiles, indicators and indexes of qualities of individuals and of communities of diverse sizes, including rural areas, towns, cities, counties, provinces, states, regions, countries and groups of countries.
Filomena Maggino is a Full Professor of Social Statistics at the Sapienza University of Rome. She is also Coordinator of the Department for Integral Wellbeing at the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis. She previously was Advisor to the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte from 2018 to 2021 and President of "Control Room Benessere Italia," under the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers from 2019 to 2021.
Prof. Maggino's scientific interests and research expertise include: indicators (definition and construction, systems, synthesis, social indicators); statistics and complexity (statistical analysis in complex system; forecasting in complex systems); survey design and analysis (questionnaire construction and definition, and sampling design); Big Data (in official statistics and social indicators; data mining); representing and communicating complex data; statistics and political communication; and applications to measuring the quality of life, quality of society, inequalities and analyzing the well-being of nations.She is Editor-in-Chief of the Social Indicators Research journal (Springer) and has authored, edited and co-edited several publications, volumes, and books, mainly in international contexts. In addition, she is also President and co-founder of the Italian Association for Quality-of-Life Studies and Scientific Director and co-founder of the Cyber Security and International Relations Laboratory (CIRLab) and was Past-president of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies and chair and organizer of two ISQOLS conferences (Florence, 2009; Venice, 2012). She has also been an advisor to several governmental organizations and member of numerous national and international committees, international associations, editorial boards of scientific journals, and scientific committees of national and international conferences. Prof. Maggino has been chair and organizer of several international and national scientific conferences and been invited as keynote speaker and lecturer all over the world, and awarded with several recognitions for her work--including the Officer of the Order "Of Merit of the Italian Republic".
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