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Context: Urban Quality of Life, architects, urban planners and urbanization, environmental issues and local governments to those skilled in is a concept that has been developed over the years. The quality of urban space is a determining factor in a person's quality of life. Which is important for ensuring quality of urban life structure is creation of healthy city. For this economic, cultural, environmental, social and political needs are met and their rights as one of available and implementation, maintenance and improvement are needed. Aims: In our country and in the world of alternative methods to achieve high quality life and work are done. An assessment shall be performed by attempting to access both national and international studies conducted on this field. Data Sources: The information and data used in the study have been collected from quality of urban life in various national and international papers, books, websites and governmental agencies' publications. Results and Discussion: Such homogeneity caused by globalisation has caused change of life preference and standards of individuals. In this context, as the world is urbanised, the urbanisation fact has become more significant, urban life quality concept and its components have been included to subjects of the agenda.

In recent years, priority for public statistics is to improve the methods of measurement and analysis of various aspects of sustainable socio-economic development. The high rank in terms of monitoring sustainable development is the measurement of life quality. The article presents the CSO's general concept of life quality survey. It includes the previously completed research and analysis as well as proposals for the development of this research issues for the coming years. Adopted by the CSO concept of measuring the life quality refers both to the Polish tradition of research in this area, as well as international recommendations. This concept takes into account the multifaceted nature of the category of life quality and increasing importance of subjective measures. It was considered that in the measurement of quality of life CSO will seek to take into account the widest possible range of information on all domains adopted by the European Statistical System, including the Polish specifics.

The article presents the importance of research on quality of life, the general concept of this category and criteria for the classification of generating important typologies quality of life, the description of which is the core content of the article. The article is development of the ideas and proposals put forward in earlier publications of the author. The added value of this work lies primarily in identifying two tendencies in discussions on the terminology of life quality and derived concepts. An attempt was made to determine the general concept of life quality, taking into account the proposed definition of axiological ground. Also typology classification criteria of quality were grouped for those that are disclosed axiology and those with hidden axiology. The study also presents some problems with measuring the quality of life within particular its classifications.

The study presents the concept of the hierarchical model of quality of life investigation in the context of social policy objectives and tools for the life quality measurement. Quality of life in the context of social policy is defined on the ground of the theory of needs, which is identified with the level of satisfaction of social needs. Moreover, the links of the concept of quality of life with social integration and sustainable development were presented.

The article addresses comparative qualitative content analysis as a part of the grounded theory research to explore the relationship between English language proficiency of economically active adults and their quality of life. Using comparative qualitative content analysis of the policy documents in respect of lifelong learning as main data collection method, the authors of the article aim to identify the relationship between the 21st century skills and indicators of life quality by comparing the sources that define the 21st century skills and analysing them in the context of the "8+1" dimensions of life quality offered by the European Union. The following research questions have been proposed: how 21st century skills are defined in the policy documents and how they relate to the quality of human life. The analysis of European Parliament, Council of the European Union, Word Economic Forum and Eurostat policies, models, strategies and their implementation in respect of lifelong learning reveals existing gaps and points at the urgent need in profiling the development of human skills to enhance human well-being and life quality in Europe. Besides, developing new skills and improving existing ones can be a tool for improving the quality of life in the future, whereas the dimensions of life quality can serve as a prerequisite for skills development.

Correlates of life quality differences in 243 US metropolitan areas are analyzed, applying an overall index of life quality developed by Ben-Chieh Liu (Quality of Life Indicators in US Metropolitan Areas, NY: Praeger, 1976) to 1970 census data. Liu's index tests the empirical utility of three competing explanations: racial dualism, economic development, & political culture. Results show that all three exert substantial effects on the quality of life regardless of metropolitan size. Overall the best predictor of life quality differences is the % of adults who have received at least a high school education. In addition, cultural differences exert significant effects on the quality of metropolitan life independent of racial & developmental differences. These cultural effects are interpreted within two theoretically seminal theories: Daniel J. Elazar's theory of political culture (Cities of the Prairie, NY: Basic, 1970) & Raymond D. Gastil's theory of cultural regions (Cultural Regions of the US, Seattle: U of Washington Press, 1975). 4 Tables, 1 Figure. Adapted from the source document.

"The face is the feature which best distinguishes a person, the shape of it being influenced by the bone-structure of the skull. Facial trauma, known as maxillofacial trauma, is any physical trauma to the face that can involve soft and hard tissue having the potential to cause disfigurement. The last resort solution after major facial trauma, when conventional reconstruction techniques have failed is now represented by face transplant. The aim of this paper is to underline the life quality and psychological implication of patients that were face transplanted. Our material and method involved studying the most relevant medical literature for this issue and also using our personal experience of patient with face cancer that underwent radical oncological surgery followed by reconstruction. Based on these data we can conclude that face transplantation appears to decrease depression and to improve patient's quality of life and societal reintegration. Also, in our opinion a very important factor involving the success of face transplantation is represented by the psychological outcomes of the patients, their follow up for a minimum 6 months period with regular psychological counselling sessions being very important. Furthermore, there is a critical need for modification of existing rating scales to allow effective assessment of face transplant candidates before and after transplantation. "

Analyzes data from the 1970 census for 243 areas. Tests the effects of racial dualism, economic development, and political culture.