Kualitas hidup diartikan oleh Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia sebagai "persepsi seseorang mengenai posisi mereka dalam kehidupan dalam konteks sistem-sistem nilai dan budaya di tempat mereka hidup dan dalam hubungannya dengan tujuan, ekspektasi, standar, dan perhatian mereka".[1] Indikator standar dari kualitas hidup meliputi kesejahteraan, pekerjaan, lingkungan hidup, kesehatan fisik dan mental, pendidikan, rekreasi dan waktu luang, keterlibatan sosial, kepercayaan agama, keselamatan, keamanan, dan kebebasan.[2][3][4] Kualitas hidup memiliki sejumlah besar konteks, yang meliputi bidang pembangunan internasional, perawatan kesehatan, politik dan pekerjaan.[5]
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- The First European Quality of Life Survey 2003
- Quality of Life in a Changing Europe, A research project on the quality of lives and work of European citizens
- Ensuring quality of life in Europe's cities and towns, European Environment Agency
- AQoL Instruments, Quality of Life Assessment Instruments – Centre for Health Economics, Monash University Australia
- The Quality-of-Life-Recorder (Shareware/Freeware) – An electronic questionnaire platform for MS Windows and Java with preconfigured adoptions of numerous important Quality-of-Life instruments (including SF-36, EORTC QLQ-C30) in multiple languages
- Applied Research in Quality of Life, the official journal of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies
- Child Indicators Research, the official journal of the International Society for Child Indicators
- Quality of Life Research, an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care, and rehabilitation – official journal of the International Society of Quality of Life Research
- After 2015: '3D Human Wellbeing', policy briefing on the value of refocusing development on 3D human wellbeing for pro-poor policy change, from the Institute of Development Studies, UK.
- Mercer Quality of Living survey
- Basic Guide to the World: Quality of Life Throughout the World
- Family database, OECD