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STAREA DE SĂNĂTATE UN PREDICTOR AL AUTOEVALUĂRII CALITĂȚII VIEȚII PERSONALE
Health Status as a Predictor of the personal Quality of Life Level

Author(s): Alexandrina Cruceanu, Ionel Muntele, Danut-Gabriel Cozma
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Fundatia Română pentru Inteligenta Afacerii
Keywords: Declared health status; Perceived health status; Determinants of health; Lifestyle; Geographical disparities

Summary/Abstract: The study in case makes part of the similar efforts at national and international level concerning health state and its determinants. Since it is a social desirable phenomenon, a person`s health state is a susceptible element of developing life standard and productivity or not, of prolonging active life and implicitly reducing public expenses for holidays, sick-ness alimonies or any other forms of social support. The starting point of our study has regarded the question at what degree health state is a determinant and a predictor of personal life quality or, opposite, a determinant of the last one. The study focuses on the identification and explanation of certain behavioural models, the life styles present in a specific geographical area, in our case-the superior basin of Moldavian Bistrita. All these are meant to explain the disparities and/or the mutual elements existent in the urban and rural environments of this study area, and the possible “endemisms” present in this area.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 81-92
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian