In the last decades of the twentieth century, world urbanization grew rapidly. The
population in the mid-1970s, which was mostly rural, underwent intense migration
to the urban area. Today, more than half of the residents live in urban areas.
Through this urban growth, there is a growing concern about population well-being.
Therefore, we will carry out an analysis of the quality of lives through the resources
acquired collectively, offered by the municipal public power, thus being able to
satisfy the basic needs for the life of the inhabitants, thus contributing to the
improvement of personal well-being and, consequently, of the conditions of life in
the urban environment. We have as main objective to analyze the quality of life of
the population of Porto Nacional - Tocantins, power through the IBEU - Urban
Welfare Index and how these services influence the quality of life of the residents.
The quality of life of a given population can be measured through different types of
indicators. What will define what indicator to be used will be the definition of the
concept of quality of life. In this work, the urban quality of life is understood as the
degree of satisfaction of the basic necessities for human life, through the access to
the public services received, in what can provide quality of life to the inhabitants of
the geographic space studied. In order to measure the quality of life of the local
population, we will use the methodological approach analyzed through the
quantitative method, that is, an analysis of the secondary data, resulting from the
Well Being Urban Index - IBEU survey. Then, we will use the approach the
qualitative-quantitative method, through obtaining primary data. We will consider,
as primary data, those data collected through a questionnaire applied in the
population of Porto Nacional - Tocantins, where we will evaluate the perception of
the local society. We do not intend to carry out a statistical calculation according to
the number of inhabitants, but rather to obtain the perception of the residents of the
municipality of Porto Nacional - TO about the public services offered and their
influence on the quality of life of each individual.
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