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Indicators of Quality of Life in Latin America

Part of the Social Indicators Research Series Book Series (volume 62)

Editors: Tonon, Graciela

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28842-0

ISBN: 978-3-319-28840-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Mar 22, 2016

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Measuring Quality of Life and Inequalities in South America

Tonon, Graciela; de la Vega, Lía Rodriguez

Pages: 3 –17

[This chapter discusses the development of a model to measure quality of life and different forms of inequalities: social, cultural, political, religious, and economic. It emerges as a result of a project conducted by the Research Program on Quality of Life, created in 2004 in the Faculty of...
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Quality of Life in Latin America: A Proposal for a Synthetic Indicator

Somarriba Arechavala, Noelia; Zarzosa Espina, Pilar

Pages: 19 –56

[This chapter provides an approach to measuring quality of life in Latin America from a territorial perspective by creating a Synthetic Quality of Life Indicator (SQLI) and adopting the social indicator approach. Amongst other objectives, the chapter seeks to obtain a robust synthetic measure of...
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A New Index for Study Quality of Life (LQI), Argentina: Combining Socioeconomic and Enviromental Indicators

Velázquez, Guillermo Angel

Pages: 57 –77

[This paper proposes, from a brief theoretical and methodological discussion, the development of a quality of life index for Argentina’s population. This index is obtained from the weighted combination of socioeconomic (education, health and housing) and environmental (nature-based recreational...
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How Are We Today? Quality of Urban Life in Argentina First Contributions from the Households Permanent Survey (2003–2012)

Lucero, Patricia Iris; Mikkelsen, Claudia Andrea; Ares, Sofía Estela

Pages: 81 –108

[To reflect on the population’s quality of life is always an exciting assignment, since such challenge includes all of us beyond the social role we play. It can be understood as a measure of achievement, determined by the scale of values prevailing in society. It is about developing social...
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Urban Quality of Life in Santa Fe Province: Demographic, Social and Territorial Processes Between 1991 and 2010

Gómez, Néstor Javier

Pages: 109 –149

[The goal of this study is to analyze the changes at the levels of urban quality of life in Santa Fe Province (Argentina) between the years 1991 and 2010. This inquiry adopts as interpretative framework the so-called developing stages or developing strategies, which have been used to distinguish...
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Mind the Gap: Monitoring Spatial Inequalities in Quality of Life Conditions (Case Study of Rosario)

Martinez, Javier

Pages: 151 –172

[Unequal quality of life conditions are one of the most visible forms of uneven and fragmented urban development. In several cities of the Global South and in Latin America in particular, there is concern about the gap between areas with low and high quality of life conditions. This concern...
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A Quantitative–Qualitative Study on Quality of Life in Smaller Towns in the Early Twenty-First Century in Argentina

Mikkelsen, Claudia Andrea

Pages: 173 –199

[The consideration of quality of life as a category allows the study of social welfare and individual and social satisfaction in specific sociocultural contexts. Quality of life is a sensitive, awareness-raising notion which consists of dimensions and indicators that stimulate reflection upon the...
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Spatial Segregation and Quality of Life: Empirical Analysis of Medium-Sized Cities of Buenos Aires Province

Linares, Santiago; Mikkelsen, Claudia Andrea; Velázquez, Guillermo Angel; Celemín, Juan Pablo

Pages: 201 –218

[In Latin America, there are few empirical studies that analyze the spatial segregation and quality of life at intra-urban scales and the existing association between the two categories. Neighborhood spatial configuration influences human behavior because the population is segregated in a...
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Evolution of Habitability Conditions in Mar del Plata Peri-urban Area (1991, 2001, 2011)

Zulaica, Laura; Ferraro, Rosana

Pages: 219 –233

[Quality of life as a goal of well-being depends on the prevailing ethos of a society, which varies according to its expectations. The concept of “habitability,” referring to the social sphere of sustainability within the sustainable urban development paradigm, is associated with that of quality...
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Quality of Life of High School Students in the City of Caracas, Venezuela

Delgado, Aquiles Pérez

Pages: 237 –250

[This chapter presents the preliminary analysis of a research study carried out in the course of 2013 in Caracas, Venezuela – on the quality of life of high school students, by using the PWI (2006) translated and adapted into an Argentine version (Tonon and Aguirre 2009) and the ESCVP (Scale of...

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