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, the book proposes the use of mixed methods that are considered as the third methodological approach in social research.
The main purpose of using qualitative methods is to understand what it means for...
This volume explores the use and relevance of qualitative methods for the study of quality of life. It analyzes the role of qualitative researcher ...
This book focuses on how EU welfare policies are implemented at the local level in 11 European cities and how local policy making addresses women's care responsibilities. The book studies the complex combination of and the relationships between local political processes, policies, institutions, structural conditions and outputs, as well as outcomes for the women's labour market integration. It demonstrates how cultural settings and multi-level governance patterns form the "playground" for local policy makers to formulate their welfare policies concerning service provision. The book further...
This book focuses on how EU welfare policies are implemented at the local level in 11 European cities and how local policy making addresses women's ca...
This is the first book tackling the topic of world suffering. It compiles in one place the ideas, perspectives, and findings of researchers from around the world who pioneered research-based understanding of human suffering. Some chapters use the paradigm of quality of life to explore ways to enhance knowledge on suffering. Other chapters show how concepts and knowledge from suffering research can benefit studies on quality of life.
By bringing together in one volume, ideas and research experience from the best minds and leading researchers in the fields of pain, suffering, poverty,...
This is the first book tackling the topic of world suffering. It compiles in one place the ideas, perspectives, and findings of researchers from ar...
This book presents a new research agenda for improvements in Quality of Life research. It includes topics such as:
-Studying QoL in particular subpopulations and selected subgroups
-Disentangling the difficult task of identifying determinants of QoL
-Perfectionating the measurement of conceptual dimensions
-Defining new indicators able to measure and monitor particular social conditions and shows that these are not separated fields of studies but intersect each other and produce different outcomes which can be with difficulty classifiable, consistent with the...
This book presents a new research agenda for improvements in Quality of Life research. It includes topics such as:
This volume examines the impact of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Africa's development post-2015. Chapters on poverty, south-south partnership, aid, gender, empowerment, health as well as governance and development explore what feasible alternative lie ahead for Africa beyond the expiry date of the MDGs.
This volume examines the impact of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on Africa's development post-2015. Chapters on poverty, south-south partner...
This is the first volume on the subject of the alleviation of world suffering. At the same time it is also the first book framing the fields of global socio-economic development, world health, human rights, peace studies, sustainability, and poverty within the challenge of alleviating suffering and improving quality of life. Both international studies and global development have become specialized and fragmented, whereas this work assembles all of these development fragments together in order to determine whether common ground exists to make headway in reducing global suffering. Leading...
This is the first volume on the subject of the alleviation of world suffering. At the same time it is also the first book framing the fields of glo...
This book describes why conventional methods fall short to solve the comparability problem and introduces three successive innovations to overcome these shortcomings.
This book describes why conventional methods fall short to solve the comparability problem and introduces three successive innovations to overcome the...
Addressing a need across disciplines to broaden understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity, this book builds on the themes of Validity and Validation in Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences (Zumbo; Chan, 2014), with a focus on measurement validity evidence based on response processes, with applications and exemplars.
Addressing a need across disciplines to broaden understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity, this book builds on the themes ...
This volume discusses the many recent significant developments, and identifies important problems, in the field of social indicators. In particular, starting from the classical theory of composite indicators many interesting approaches have been developed to overcome the weaknesses of composites.
This volume discusses the many recent significant developments, and identifies important problems, in the field of social indicators. In particular, s...
This volume analyses many of the real development challenges confronting the African continent, presenting fresh and current objective examinations, narratives, interpretations and pathways to the continent's development.
This volume analyses many of the real development challenges confronting the African continent, presenting fresh and current objective examinations, n...
