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well-being

noun abounding in riches, affluent, blooming, booming, comfortable, established, flourishing, fortunate, lucky, moneyed, profiting, providential, rich, safety, security, successful, thriving, wealthy, well-off, welllituated well-to-do

See also: benefit, betterment, boom, health, prosperity, welfare

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The deal integrates Total Well-Being's engagement and well-being solutions with Telligen's clinically-focused care management programmes.

Telligen Acquires US Employee Health Programme Specialist Total Well-Being

We need to work with our partners to ensure people s well-being is at the heart of the services we deliver.

United Kingdom : Transformation of social services in Wales given green light

Moving on about 2,300 years, a comparison can be made with the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) guidance on work-related stress and the connection to individuals' well-being. Issues acknowledged include support and encouragement, relationships with colleagues and the organisation, individuals' behaviour and understanding roles and objectives.

Learning about well-being: Heather Girling explains the role that L&D practitioners can play in promoting an organisation's well-being

After noting my endorsement of FDR's call for personal sacrifice, especially during times of war, Lind contends that individualist liberals "find it impossible to explain how someone who dies for his country is dying for his own liberty or well-being," Perhaps so.

How should liberals think about liberty?

Although the number of domains varies somewhat, those typically identified include (a) psychological well-being (defined in such terms as life satisfaction, and freedom from depression or anxiety); (b) physical well-being; (c) social and interpersonal well-being; (d) financial and material well-being; (e) employment or productivity, and (f) functional ability (Bishop & Allen; Felce & Perry; George & Bearon, 1980; Jalowiec, 1990).

Quality of life and psychosocial adaptation to chronic illness and acquired disability: a conceptual and theoretical synthesis

Without question, healthy work can provide a sense of accomplishment and greatly enhance an individual's well-being. Employees who work hard, with great energy and dedication, are not necessarily addicted to their work.

Police work addiction: a cautionary tale

Even though sleep is an important quality-of-life consideration that can influence physical and mental well-being, the subject has been virtually ignored by most long-term care researchers and nursing home providers.

Strategies for improving residents' nighttime sleep: these researchers focused on methods that were common sense, but not commonplace. (Feature Article)

By the early sixteenth century, "common weal" had come to mean "the general well-being" as well as identifying the whole community, rulers and ruled, living together in peace and order as a body politic (7).

From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England. The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford, 1994-1995

Men Like Us: The GMHC Complete Guide to Gay Men's Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Well-Being offers similar guidance for gay men.

Health & Science

Democracy should be a system, which generates well-being for a country's entire citizenry, not just for a select few people.

LETTERS

a concern for my spiritual well-being" does not mean that I have any obligation to listen.

LETTERS to the editor

Your magazine is the only one to focus on promoting the financial well-being of the African American community, and for this I truly thank you!