TY - CHAP AU - Alister Chitetele Soy Pinto AU - Ana Pinto de Moura AU - Augusto Mário Miquitaio AU - Bas’llele Malomalo AU - Cristina Amaro da Costa AU - Daniela Queiroz Zuliani AU - Delfim Domingos da Costa AU - Gabriel Cunha Beato AU - Gaspar Afonso da Graça AU - Imaculada C.F. Henriques Matias AU - Jaqueline Sgarbi Santos AU - Leodinilde Pinto Caetano AU - Lilian Fernanda Galesi Pacheco AU - Maitu Abibo Buanango AU - Miclay Carvalho AU - Pedro Fernando Chimela Chume AU - Pedro Acosta Leyva AU - Vladmir Silves Ferreira AU - Maria Rita Marques de Oliveira ED - Ryan Merlin Yonk Y1 - 2021-05-29 PY - 2021 T1 - Networking and Participatory Research Promoting Quality of Life and Well-Being in Portuguese-Speaking African Countries N2 - The authors of this volume provide a window into what influences the quality of life, why people live longer, and why we are relatively better off compared to decades ago. While the potential ways of measuring life quality are abundant, understanding what causes improvement requires careful study and consideration. This volume provides useful insight into these challenges and helps to highlight a clear and important separation between wellbeing and standard of living, both relevant to assessing the quality of life. Standard of living refers to the material welfare of a group. Wellbeing, on the other hand, encapsulates harder-to-measure subjective preferences. Together they help us to understand the quality of life of certain groups at specific times, and in specific communities. BT - Improving Quality of Life SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.97730 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.97730 SN - 978-1-83968-814-0 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -