NOVOURALSK TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Topic
“2007 Quality of Life index”
Executed by: Ann Ilyushina,
UK-26Dk
Examined by: Ketova N.I.
Novouralsk 2008
Contents
1 Introduction 4
2 How is the Quality of Life Index composed? 5
3 The best place in the world to live 6
3.1 From here to there easy and quick 6
3.2 Economic enigma 6
3.3 A long, healthy life 7
3.4 The downsides of France 7
4 First runner-up 8
5 Moving up three places. Italy 9
5.1 Weather 9
5.2 Health 9
5.3 It needn't cost the earth 9
6 Argentina-new to our top 10 11
7 Stay Stateside for convenience 12
8 The place of Russia in 2007 Quality of Life Index. American’s view on Russia 13
8.1 Russia Per Se 13
8.2 Russia's Role in the World 13
8.3 Russia's Government and Economic System 14
8.4 Views of President Vladimir Putin 14
8.5 Perceptions of the Strength of Russian Influence Now and in the Future 14
9 Comparison of Russia with the best and the worst places in the world 16
10 Statistics of 2007 Quality of Life Index 17
10.1 Biggest cities 17
10.2 World's most dangerous cities 17
10.3 Most polluted cities on earth 17
10.4 The 10 most touristed countries 18
10.5 Where you'll live longest (Average life expectancy in years) 18
10.6 The world's fastest-growing cities 19
10.7 World's most expensive countries 19
10.8 World's cheapest countries 20
10.9 Greatest population density (per square mile) 20
11 Conclution 21
12 References 22
1 Introduction
Quality of life is the degree of well-being felt by an individual or group of people. Unlike standard of living, quality of life is not a tangible concept, and therefore cannot be measured directly. Furthermore, quality of life consists of two components. The first is a physical aspect which includes such things as health, diet, as well as protection against pain and disease. The second component is psychological in nature. This aspect includes such things as stress, worry, pleasure and other positive or negative emotional states. It is virtually impossible to predict the quality of life of a specific individual, since the combination of attributes that leads one individual to be content is rarely the same for another individual. However, one can assume with some confidence the higher average level of diet, shelter, safety, as well as freedoms and rights a general population has, the better overall quality of life said population experiences.
Understanding quality of life is today particularly important in health care, where monetary measures do not readily apply. Decisions on what research or treatments to invest the most in are closely related to their effect on a patient's quality of life.
The well-being or quality of life of a population is an important concern in economics and political science It is measured by many social and economic factors. Large part are standard of living, the amount of money, infrastructure and access to goods and services that a person has – these numbers are fairly easily measured. Others, such as freedom, happiness, art, culture and leisure, environmental health and innovation are far harder to measure.
Factors of
quality
of
life
Easy to measure
Difficulty to measure
Picture 1. Factors of quality of life
Imagine that you could choose the place to live. What country would you prefer? I wonder where you know about the countries with the best conditions of living?