HEALTH - AN AUTOEVALUATION PREDICTOR OF PERSONAL LIFE QUALITY

• Main Authors: Alexandrina CRUCEANU, Ionel MUNTELE, Danut-Gabriel COZMA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Romanian Foundation for Business Intelligence 2014-06-01
• Series: Cross-Cultural Management Journal
• Subjects: Declared health status; Perceived health status; Determinants of health; Lifestyle; Geographical disparities
• Online Access: http://seaopenresearch.eu/Journals/articles/CMJ2014_I1_6.pdf

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.