The impact of the Family 500+ Programme on the quality of life of Polish households Cover Image

Jakość życia w ujęciu teoretycznym oraz w badaniu gospodarstw domowych korzystających ze świadczenia "Rodzina 500+"
The impact of the Family 500+ Programme on the quality of life of Polish households

Author(s): Agnieszka Wiśniewska
Subject(s): Politics, Micro-Economics, Sociology
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: jakość życia; gospodarstwa domowe; program Rodzina 500+

Summary/Abstract: The quality of life as a concept is considered from the point of view of different sciences. The quality of life reflects the level of satisfying the needs, and also the supply of the household with vital elements. The quality of households' life is connected with their wealth and affluence. In addition to the income earned by households for their work, some of them receive a variety of family-oriented benefits. Benefits like that include those from the Family 500+ Programme. The purpose of this article is to indicate a uniform and synthetic definition of the term "quality of life". The author describes the framework of the Family 500+ Programme as an instrument of pro-family policy and its impact on the quality of life. The research methodology includes: critical analysis of the literature, the method of examining documents and the analytical and the descriptive method. In addition, to survey Polish households, the diagnostic survey method was used. The practical consequence and the social implication of the article is the inference about the Family 500+ Programme and the possibility of using the research for further analysis. Besides, the article may be a guide to creating pro-family programmes, as well as adjusting the offers of the financial sector for households.

  • Issue Year: 36/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 105-121
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English, Polish