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  • Key Actors in Public Policy-making for Quality of Life
    Graciela Tonon
    This book analyzes how quality of life research results can be transferred to policy making, and considers the role of actors in this process---researchers, policy makers, and citizens---as well as their interrelationships. This book points to the need to include actors other than the state in public policy-making related to quality of life and well-being issues, in defining pr...
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    85,26 €

  • Social Justice for Children in the South
    Graciela H. Tonon
    This book considers that contextual factors are important for the achievement of social justice and it recognizes that vulnerability to which children are exposed is a phenomenon throughout the planet, particularly in the South. It presents a theoretical review of social justice as well as different situations of vulnerability children experience in their daily lives in which t...
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    48,21 €

  • Re-defining Children’s Participation in the Countries of the South
    Graciela Tonon
    The focus of this book is centered on the participation of children in countries of the South. In this sense, it will review the possibilities of children’s participation, as well as their forms of participation in different contexts of daily life. There has been a tendency to underestimate children’s role as active constructors of their surrounding social space, as well as of ...
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    103,92 €

  • Teaching Quality of Life in Different Domains
    Graciela H. Tonon
    This is the first volume addressing the importance of teaching quality of life theory and methodology in different domains: social sciences, philosophy, sociology, political science, marketing, education, urbanism, statistics, economics, online learning, public health, sports, and constraint contexts in terms of their relationship with the Capability Approach. The chapters are ...
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    121,50 €

  • Quality of Life in Communities of Latin Countries
    Graciela Tonon
    This book presents a reconfiguration of the concepts of community in Latin countries as well as the community quality of life and well-being of different groups: children, young people, older adults, migrants. The traditional concept of community has changed together with the way people participate in community spaces. Community nowadays is more than a geographic concentration;...
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    133,86 €

  • Indicators of Quality of Life in Latin America
    Graciela Tonon
    This volume sheds new light on the use of quantitative, qualitative and synthetic indicators for the measurement of quality of life in different countries of Latin America. Organized in three parts, the book presents the methodology for the construction of new indicators, discusses quality of urban life from a geographical perspective, and examines quality of life of different ...
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    133,79 €

  • Qualitative Studies in Quality of Life
    Graciela Tonon
    This volume explores the use and relevance of qualitative methods for the study of quality of life. It analyzes the role of qualitative researcher and the role of the context and the culture in quality of life studies. It presents the use of qualitative methods in real projects carried out in specific fields: geography, health, community studies, labor life and yoga. Finally, t...
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    66,45 €

  • Calidad de vida y niñez: Perspectiva desde la investigación cualitativa
    Graciela Tonon / María Mieles / María Mieles Barrera
    Este libro presenta el estudio de la calidad de vida de niños y niñas a partir de su posicionamiento como sujetos de políticas públicas y como titulares de derechos en ejercicio. Desde un enfoque cualitativo, el texto recupera las vivencias de niños y niñas de Santa Marta, Colombia, desplegando un dispositivo metodológico desarrollado a partir de la utilización de técnicas tale...
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    24,91 €

  • Young People’s Quality of Life and Construction of Citizenship
    Graciela Tonon
    The study of quality of life refers to the material environment (social welfare) and psychosocial environment (wellbeing). It has been defined as a concept that implies the objective and subjective dimension that Cummins (1997) first studied in seven domains. The use of domains in the quality of life study allows a more precise measurement than the one that could have been reac...
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    60,39 €