Theory of the Quality of Life

The scope of this book is to develop and propose the fundamentals of the theory of the quality of life, that some people consider an old concept but it needs sound theoretical basics out of the statistical one. Here, the system science approach is applied to the theory of quality. Developed by GGM Quartieri in the 1980, this main fundamental relation convolutes value, quality and cost of a system ∑. Von Bertalaffy and Miller developed the system basic concept and its nature later supported by the Harold Chestnut system engineering approach. These approaches have allowed Giuseppe Quartieri to develop his functional relation of convolution among value, quality and cost using information theory. The analysis continues on the scale and ranking parameters to define the quality of life. The logic of the existence and the meaning of life constitute the real basis of the quality of life. The spiritual, etheric, religious and other similar aspects are fundamental values for the life of people. However, they are extremely difficult to be evaluated and, eventually, measured as parameters. By definition, the system aspects include only and only measurable entities so this book refers to standard life concept. Hidden (spiritual and so on) values and parameters remain “hidden”! The Appendix N° 0 reports some results of the published QoL statistic results available in the Wikipedia. The famous book on “Trattato di Statistica 1: La variabiltà” by Prof. Francesco Brambilla places the basic for the statistic applied to quality.
In any case, these quality statistic works demonstrate the importance of statistics in quality systems and its big role in the science. In the 2003 year the Italian “Academica dei Lincei” organized a big conference meeting in System Science and Engineering, in its antique building in Trastevere Rome.
During last years, health crisis plus the three crisis (Energy, Ecology/Climate and Economy) amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic and the environmental factors inside the present climate change strongly influence the quality of life. In the period of the coronavirus crisis, quality of life reduced all over the world. Green deal and anthropic reduction of the Earth resources is one of the main topics of this analysis that produces and still produce one of the most important economic crisis due to the worldwide Covid-19 epidemiologic curve. Later some other kind of problems arose in Europe due to Russia-Ukraine wars and later due to Hamas vs Israel war. The phenomena are producing changes and variations in the European geopolitics world and, in general, in the worldwide political and economic equilibrium.
New policy and new management have to accept new standard for quality of life but not only based on money as economists are continuing to affirm. In the end of the day, the system value is not the cost but only and only its convolution (faltung) with quality. Whilst those new concepts of quality of life are applicable, the fear of reducing the resources of the planet due to many reasons seems the most important concerns of some scientists, political and economic people. In this comes the divergence of ideas and opinions regarding the humanity support-ability and the percentage of anthropic vs natural factors of the reduction of quality of life. But quality of life has always had the capability to transform the fear of living in a need of knowledge and specifically of the need of knowledge of the life nature codes. This is applicable all over the World.