The International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) is an international, academic organization which promotes research in and measurement of "Quality of life

Quality of life

The term quality of life is used to evaluate the general well-being of individuals and societies. The term is used in a wide range of contexts, including the fields of international development, healthcare, and politics. Quality of life should not be confused with the concept of standard of...

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Objectives

The organization's stated general objectives are to provide an worldwide interdisciplinary collaboration framework between academics and professionals in the field of Quality of Life Studies with the intention of generating policy and society changes based on scientific research.

Conferences and publications

The society sponsors international conferences. The ninth annual ISQOLS conference was held in Florence, Italy on the theme “Measures and Goals of the Progress of Societies”; in attendance were 373 participants from 44 countries. OECD chief statistician Enrico Giovannini, in his keynote address to the conference, referenced the Istanbul Declaration of 2007, an agreement by number of international organizations (the European Commission, OECD, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the United Nations, the UNDP and the World Bank) to develop a new paradigm for statistical evaluation and policy-making which would go beyond gross domestic product

Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product refers to the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period. GDP per capita is often considered an indicator of a country's standard of living....

and also include subjective indicators of well-being.

The society publishes the journal Applied Research in Quality of Life.