Forms of well-being
Well-being is complex, multi-dimensional and context-specific and includes physical (objective well-being), social and emotional attributes (subjective well-being)—but policy continues to use single or multidimensional objective measures to evaluate well-being and pursue policies to improve it.
The natural environment provides many of the most vital elements of well-being: physical, emotional and social. Of course, cultural values and personal circumstances also affect happiness; therefore the elements of well-being will vary from person to person, place to place, and culture to culture.
Thus, policies should focus on enabling wellbeing by providing for the freedoms and capabilities that allow each person to achieve what will contribute to his or her own well-being.