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Welfare may refer to:

Contents

• Philosophy
• Economics
• Government-run public aid
• People
• Other uses
• See also

Philosophy

• Well-being (happiness, prosperity, or flourishing) of a person or group
• Utility in utilitarianism
• Value in value theory

Economics

• Utility, a general term for individual well-being in economics and decision theory
  • Decision utilities, utilities as revealed by human behavior under the assumption of rationality
  • Economic surplus, the total economic benefit or gains from trade provided for society
• Social welfare function, a function that aggregates individual welfares to create an overall social welfare
  • Social choice theory, the study of welfare aggregation
• Welfare economics, the study of social well-being

People

• Henry Welfare, English footballer
• Michael Welfare (Wohlfahrt), American religious leader
• Sue Welfare, English writer

Other uses

• Welfare (film), a 1975 film by Frederick Wiseman
• HMS Welfare, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy, and one planned ship

See also

• Animal welfare, the quality of life or well-being of animals
• Corporate welfare, term describing the bestowal of benefits upon corporations by government
• Welfare fraud, intentional misuse of welfare programs by providing false information
• Welfare queen, a pejorative term for a person accused of collecting excess welfare payments

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