Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia.
Centre for Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2024 Dec;19(1):2321646. doi: 10.1080/17482631.2024.2321646. Epub 2024 Mar 4.
Well-being is a complex, multi-dimensional, dynamic, and evolving concept, covering social, economic, health, cultural and spiritual dimensions of human living, and often used synonymously with happiness, life satisfaction, prosperity, and quality of life. We review the existing key wellbeing frameworks applied in Australia both for the wider public and Indigenous peoples. The aim is to provide a comprehensive overview of various applied frameworks, along with a critical analysis of domains or dimensions comprising those frameworks, and to analyse the role of nature in those frameworks.
We conducted a critical analysis of the main frameworks applied in Australia to date to measure the well-being of the mainstream (mainly non-Indigenous) and Indigenous populations. This study is particularly timely given the Australian Government's interest in revising the well-being frameworks as mentioned in the Government "Measuring What Matters" statement.
The existing well-being frameworks in Australia either overlook or hardly consider the role of nature and its services which are important to support human well-being. Likewise, for Indigenous peoples " (Indigenous clan land) is vital for their well-being as their living is imbued with "Country". The role of nature/"Country" needs to be considered in revising the well-being frameworks, indicators and measures to inform and develop appropriate policies and programs in Australia.
To develop appropriate welfare policies and programs for achieving socio-economic and other wellbeing outcomes, it is essential to evolve and conceptualize wellbeing frameworks (and related indicators and measures) in line with people's contemporary values, particularly considering the role of nature and its services.
幸福感是一个复杂、多维、动态和不断发展的概念，涵盖了人类生活的社会、经济、健康、文化和精神维度，通常与幸福、生活满意度、繁荣和生活质量同义。我们回顾了澳大利亚现有的、应用于更广泛公众和原住民的主要幸福感框架。目的是提供对各种应用框架的全面概述，以及对构成这些框架的领域或维度的批判性分析，并分析自然在这些框架中的作用。
我们对迄今为止在澳大利亚应用于衡量主流（主要是非原住民）和原住民人口幸福感的主要框架进行了批判性分析。鉴于澳大利亚政府有兴趣修改政府“衡量重要事项”声明中提到的幸福感框架，本研究尤其及时。
澳大利亚现有的幸福感框架要么忽视了，要么几乎没有考虑到自然及其服务的作用，而这些对于支持人类幸福感是很重要的。同样，对于原住民来说，“（原住民部落土地）对他们的幸福感至关重要，因为他们的生活充满了“国家”。在修订幸福感框架、指标和措施以告知并制定澳大利亚的适当政策和计划时，需要考虑自然/“国家”的作用。
为了制定实现社会经济和其他幸福感成果的适当福利政策和计划，必须根据人们的当代价值观发展和概念化幸福感框架（以及相关的指标和措施），特别是要考虑自然及其服务的作用。
