Qualitative Studies in Quality of Life

Chapter 1: The Relevance of the Use of Qualitative Methods for the Study of Quality of Life; Graciela Tonon.- Chapter 2: The Qualitative Researcher in Quality of Life Field; Graciela Tonon.- Chapter 3: The Role of the Context and the Culture in Quality of Life Studies; Lia Rodriguez de la Vega.- Chapter 4: Integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in quality of life studies; Graciela Tonon.- Chapter 5: Qualitative Methodologies in Geography, Contributions to the Study of Quality of Life; Claudia Mikkelsen and Josefina Di Nucci.- Chapter 6: Qualitative Studies in Health Related Quality of Life: the Case of Young People Living with HIV/AIDS; Milton Décima.- Chapter 7: Children's quality of life in the Caribbean: a qualitative study; Maria Dilia Mieles Barrera - Graciela Tonon.- Chapter 8: Qualitative Studies of Young People's Quality of Life in Urban and Rural Areas; Lucia Zanabria Ruiz.- Chapter 9: Young people's rural quality of life in the Colombian Andes: a qualitative study using triangulation; Antonio Lopez Lopez.- Chapter 10: A Qualitative Study about Yoga Practice in Quality of Labor Life; Lia Rodriguez de la Vega.

Graciela H. Tonon is PhD in Political Sciences, Magister Political Sciences and Social worker. Her interest areas are: quality of life, qualitative research methodology, human development, young people. Actually she is Vice-president of External Affairs of International Society for Quality of Life Studies. She has been elected as Information Officer at the Human Development and Capability Association. Member of Childwatch International Research Network (Latin America Group), Primary Researcher International Well-being group, Member of Capability Measurement Project (Open University, UK) Director of UNI-COM (university-community), Director Research Program in quality of life and Director Quality of Life Post-doctoral Studies Program Faculty of Social Sciences. Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora. Professor of Community Social Work, Thesis of Magister and Children and Young people in risk in the Faculty of Social Sciences of Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora. Professor of Qualitative Methodology in Universidad de Palermo (Argentina) and Universidad Nacional de La Matanza. Member Policy Board Applied Research in Quality of Life (ARQOL). Editorial Board Member New Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well being Research. Member Editorial Board Journal of Social Research and Policy. Universidad de Oradea. Romania Member Editorial Board International Journal of Happiness and Development (IJHD) Trent University, Canada. Member Scientific Committee Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Niñez y Juventud, Universidad de Manizales-CINDE, Colombia. Author of 12 books and scientific articles in Spanish and English. Director of Doctoral Thesis and Thesis of Magister Programs in different universities of Latin America. Director of more than 20 research projects at different universities of ArgentinaMember of National University Evaluation Committees in Argentina.

"Tonon and her colleagues demonstrate how the application of qualitative approaches to the Quality of Life field provides a crucial intervention in understanding quality of life. ... The book provides a different kind of scientificity and rigour to understanding quality of life. ... The book is a presentation of what Tonon describes as a 'new horizon of development'.  ... The book therefore materially provides new perspectives both in its scholarship and its commitment to developing scholarly practice." (Tobia Fattore, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 10, 2015)