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Hyvinvoinnin teoriat hyvinvoinnin edistämisessä ja poliittisessa päätöksenteossa

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Well-being in theory, practice and political decision-making. The concept of well-being is vitally important from many perspectives. We all care about well-being at the personal level. The concept is very much used in politics, welfare services and in social policy. Indisputably, one of the very basic tasks of public administration is to promote the well-being of the citizens. However, there is a lot of conceptual confusion in both political and academic discussions on well-being. For instance, there is no consensus on how should it be understood theoretically or measured in practice. In this article, an interdisciplinary group of researchers brings clarity to urgent theoretical and conceptual issues by introducing the key theories of well-being and by exploring their consequences for investigation, measurement and public promotion of well-being.