WHO (2017) defines quality of life as individuals perception of their position in life, both in their\u00a0cultural and value systems in which they live as well as in their relation to their respective goals, expectations, standards and concerns. It is a broad ranging concept that involves a person’s physical\u00a0health, psychological state, level of independence, social relationships, personal beliefs and their relationship to salient features of their environment. In line with the definition from WHO, CDC (2017)\u00a0describes quality of life as a broad multidimensional concept that usually includes subjective\u00a0evaluations of both positive and negative aspects of life.<\/p>\n
Quality of life can be measured in multiple ways. Even though quality of life encompasses\u00a0various domain such as jobs, housing, schools, and environment, health is nevertheless one of the key\u00a0domain in quality of life. In addition, culture, values, and spirituality are also an important part in the\u00a0overall quality of life that adds the complexity of its measurement (CDC, 2017). Consequently, the scale\u00a0\/ index of quality of life requires at least three domains such as physical function, mental status, and the\u00a0ability to engage in social activities in accordance with existing norms (Spitzer WO, 1986 in the 2014 MW Post).<\/p>\n
Quality of life index is an estimation of overall quality of life which takes into account purchasing\u00a0power index (higher is better), pollution index (lower is better), house price to income ratio (lower is\u00a0better), cost of living index (lower is better), safety index (higher is better), health care index (higher is\u00a0better), traffic commute time index (lower is better) and climate index (higher is better). In the year 2017\u00a0Indonesia occupies the 45th position out of 56 countries. This position an improvement after the
\nprevious year in 2016 Indonesia ranked 57th (from 61 countries). Despite the increase, Indonesia is still\u00a0under neighboring countries such as Singapore, India and Malaysia (Numbeo, 2017).<\/p>\n
It is obvious that the effort to improve the quality of life can not be solved only by the health\u00a0sector alone. Multi-sector collaboration is required to achieve equitable development in various\u00a0sectors in improving quality of life. It is important for us in Indonesia especially in Yogyakarta to have a
\nprogram to learn the experience of multi sector collaboration to improve quality of life from other\u00a0countries. Therefore, in this 57th MILAD UAD series, we will hold an international seminar with the\u00a0theme \u201cImproving Quality of Life through Multi sector Collaboration\u201d which invite speakers from UAD\u00a0and abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WHO (2017) defines quality of life as individuals perception of their position in life, both in their\u00a0cultural and value systems in which they live as well as in their relation to their respective goals, expectations, standards and concerns. It is a broad ranging concept that involves a person’s physical\u00a0health, psychological state, level of independence, social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uphec2018-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uphec.uad.ac.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uphec.uad.ac.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uphec.uad.ac.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uphec.uad.ac.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uphec.uad.ac.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uphec.uad.ac.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uphec.uad.ac.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uphec.uad.ac.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uphec.uad.ac.id\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}