Social welfare (disambiguation)
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Social welfare may refer to:
- Social welfare provision, a wide range of social services, for the benefit of individual citizens.
- Welfare state, an ideal model in which the state assumes primary responsibility for the welfare of its citizens.
- Welfare economics, a branch of economics that uses microeconomic techniques to simultaneously determine the allocational efficiency of a macroeconomy and the income distribution consequences associated with it.
- Social welfare function, a real-valued function that maximizes conceivable, hypothetically feasible welfare measures of members of the society on an ordering of the corresponding social states.
- Well-being, a metric relating the quality of life of a population.