Wellbeing measures are gaining consensus as complementary to the traditional GDP approach when it comes to assessing the development of countries and communities. Cultural Welfare is a new, integrated approach aimed at promoting the wellbeing and health of individuals and communities through practices rooted in the arts and in cultural heritage. Recently, experimental tools have been devised and applied, with reference to either specific target groups of beneficiaries or individual cultural/artistic disciplines, the purpose of which is to measure and assess the contribution to individual and societal wellbeing, as well as the health of cultural and artistic participation and practice in general. Policies aimed at promoting cultural welfare need a robust body of evidence, and indicators may contribute to supporting them. While measures for the assessment of the culture-and-wellbeing relationship have been proposed at the national level or at the level of individual organizations or programmes, the level of local policies appears still largely unexplored. The article discusses a few theoretical and methodological issues and proposes a set of quality criteria for designing cultural welfare indicators on a local scale.

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地方文化福利政策指标：内容、维度和质量标准

在评估国家和社区的发展时，福利措施正在获得共识，作为对传统 GDP 方法的补充。文化福利是一种新的综合方法，旨在通过植根于艺术和文化遗产的实践来促进个人和社区的福祉和健康。最近，针对受益者的特定目标群体或个人文化/艺术学科设计和应用了实验工具，其目的是衡量和评估对个人和社会福祉以及文化健康的贡献以及一般的艺术参与和实践。旨在促进文化福利的政策需要大量证据，而指标可能有助于支持这些政策。虽然在国家层面或在个别组织或计划层面提出了评估文化与福祉关系的措施，但地方政策层面似乎仍然很大程度上未探索。本文讨论了一些理论和方法问题，并提出了一套在地方范围内设计文化福利指标的质量标准。