When we talk about quality of life, we refer to the essence of our life itself. How do we live and how do we want to do it? Our aspirations are combined, our individual desires to live and feel "good", with the objective conditions in which we operate daily, housing, work, income, environment, social environment, among other edges that cross the very broad dimension that this concept.
The idea and approach to quality of life is not new, it dates back to the 1960s, when it was linked to the environment and the deterioration of urban living conditions.
Subsequently, the social sciences begin the development of social and statistical indicators that allow measuring data and facts related to the social well-being of a population.
The development and refinement of these indicators, in the mid-70s and early 80s, is what leads to the differentiation between them and the quality of life itself. The former are associated with the objective conditions of life, while the concept begins to be defined with a notion of a multidimensional nature (Gómez Vela, S., 2016 in Struck, 2018).
From there, our concern and continuous work in favor of the quality of life of the various populations.
Today, in 2022, in the context of a pandemic (COVID19) that has disrupted the way of life of populations and continues to do so; Since a new way of working has been generated, interpersonal relationships mediated by technology, a new educational model, among other changes, the quality of life has been abruptly impacted, including its referents.
Unexpected wars, such as the one in Ukraine, marked by contempt for human life, that is to say, further complicates these studies.
Multiculturalism adds one more ingredient, which cannot be left out, which is why we continue to investigate and add collaborative efforts from Asesórate Consultores
Associated with this, our great line of research and projects: Quality of Life.
Our north is the effective contribution with the different citizens and achieve the expected improvements. This leads us to advance quickly in this joint work that we have
proposed.
Dr. Adelaida Struck González
References,
Struck, A., (2020) Quality of Life. “A vision from the Venezuelan reality. 2017-2019. Capital City Caracas”. Chapter in the
book: Looks at the Venezuela of the XXI century. Themes, approaches and evidence. Institute for Economic Research and
Social “Dr. Rodolfo Quintero” FaCES, UCV, pp. 185-215. ISBN 978-980-6708-38-9, p. 185-215.
Struck A., Chávez Y., Vidal M., (2018) Approach to the concept and study of quality of life in a group of students from the
Central University of Venezuela. In the digital book The social sciences: multiple approaches, volume I. ISBN 978-980-00-2894-
0. Institute of Economic and Social Research “Dr. Rodolfo Quintero” FaCES, UCV, pp. 170-192. Caracas.
