Create your Better Life Index!
How do we measure the quality of our lifes? Is the GDP per capita an indication of citizens’ happiness?
Community indicators for sustainable aging in place
What does aging in place mean? It is the ability to remain in one’s home or community, in spite of potential changes in health and functioning in later life. In a livable community, residents of all ages can maintain their independence and enjoy a high quality of life.
Women’s Economic Opportunity Index – a tool for improving the economic performance of human society
In one of our previous blog posts, “Gender diversity – global trends and the influence on organizational performance”, we explored several issues relating to gender diversity of top executives and managers in corporations, and the associated effects of gender diversity on organizational performance.
Global measurement of luxury and wealth – The Cost of Living Extremely Well Index (CLEWI)
Forbes lauched in 1976 the Cost of Living Extremely Well Index (CLEWI) that measures the price of a basket of luxury goods, being considered to be for the very rich what the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index is to ordinary people. The index is based on the selection of 40 goods and services reserved to very rich customers, such as:
Life Expectancy – Outcome performance measure for health improvement
In a recently published article, A Healthy Bottom Line: Healthy Life Expectancy as an Outcome Measure for Health Improvement Efforts, the Milbank Quarterly, a multidisciplinary journal of population health and health policy, recommends the adoption and adaptation of Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) as an national outcome measure in USA.
