scholarly journals Relationship between human potential and quality of life: results of correlation analysis

POPULATION ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Artem A. Fedotov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Functional Relationships

The article provides the results of a correlation analysis of the functional relationships between indicators of quality of life and human potential in Russia. The study was conducted on the basis of regional statistics for the period from 2010 to 2018 with the account of time series. While the notion of quality of life describes rather conditions of life, human potential reflects qualitative characteristics of population. Human potential is considered in a broad sense as a set of population characteristics that act as opportunities for realization and comprehensive development of a person in accordance with his aspirations and needs. In the author's view, human potential is of a paramount importance in the development of society and man, and quality of life acts as a factor designed to maintain and develop it. This determines the relevance of the topic of this study, aimed at finding functional relationships between the indicators of quality of life and human potential. The author selected 6 indicators of human potential: natural population growth, educational attainment, visits to museums and theaters, life expectancy, incidence of alcoholism and drug addiction, and crime rates. There were also selected 13 indicators of quality of life: population with income below the subsistence minimum, life expectancy, infant mortality rate, morbidity, number of doctors of all specialties, population with higher and secondary professional education, provision of places for preschool children in educational institutions, number of students, average per capita income, R/ P10% ratio, Gini coefficient, number of recorded crimes, unemployment rate. Some indicators are both indicators of the quality of life and indicators of the quality of population that made it possible to identify functional relationships between various aspects of human potential. The correlation analysis carried out in general for all years and regions discovered a number of regularities and allowed us to construct hypotheses, which were further tested in the regional context with the account of time series. The results of the analysis allow us to draw conclusions about strong impact of monetary income, poverty and unemployment on most indicators of human potential. There were also found relationships between the components of human potential themselves, such as life expectancy, crime rates, incidence of alcoholism and drug addiction. In addition, there was identified a number of regularities in the relationships between individual indicators of human potential and socio-economic indicators of quality of life. The relationships found also include: impact of crime on inequality, of infant mortality on natural population growth, etc.

scholarly journals Human and scientific-technical potential: regional correlation analysis

POPULATION ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Artem Fedotov
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Natural Population ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Physical Aspect ◽  
Technical Potential ◽  
Internal Costs

The development of scientific and technical potential in the regions of Russia is an important task, without which it is difficult to imagine the competitiveness of the domestic economy. On the other hand, innovative development is closely related to such a social category as the human potential of the population. The article presents the results of a correlation analysis between indicators of scientific and technical potential, reflecting the resource component and the results of innovative activity of regions, on the one hand, and indicators of human potential, in particular, its physical aspect, on the other. The results obtained confirmed the absolute positive correlation between the indicators of scientific and technical potential and positive factors of human potential (life expectancy, natural population growth, the spread of education, visits to museums and theaters), as well as a negative relationship with negative factors of human potential (the level of addiction). The factors of scientific and technical potential that are most sensitive to the values of human potential indicators are revealed: internal costs for research and development, internal costs for technological innovation, the number of advanced production technologies used. A more detailed correlation analysis was carried out with the study of time lags separately for each region between the indicators of scientific and technical potential and three indicators of the physical aspect of human potential: life expectancy, natural population growth, the spread of alcoholism and drug addiction. The results obtained indicate that life expectancy is the strongest positive indicator of human potential, positively affecting the scientific and technical potential, and the spread of alcoholism and drug addiction is the strongest negative factor negatively associated with indicators of scientific and technical potential.

scholarly journals Survival and Years of Good Life in Finland in the very long run

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Claudia Reiter ◽  
Wolfgang Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Time Series ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Critical Levels ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Quality Of Life Indicators ◽  
To Come ◽  
Sullivan Method

In this paper we apply the recently developed wellbeing indicator ‘Years of Good Life’ (YoGL) to Finland, which has the world’s longest annual demographic time series starting in 1722. We combine this with scenarios up to 2100 as developed under the SSP (Shared Socioeconomic Pathways) framework. YoGL is based primarily on the trend in life expectancy but it also considers age-specific proportions of persons above critical levels of quality of life indicators (using the Sullivan method). Since estimating these indicators for historical populations is a major challenge, the paper uses a wide array of sources to come up with a first crude estimation of how quality of life has changed in Finland over the centuries.

scholarly journals SARCOPENIA: HOW TO DIAGNOSE IT?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Pasechnik
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Ultrasound Imaging ◽  
Muscle Tissue ◽  
Nutritional Support ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
Results Of Treatment ◽  
Life Threatening

Annotation. An increase in life expectancy is associated with an increase in the number of people suffering from drug addiction. The development of sarcopenia significantly reduces the quality of life of patients and worsens the results of treatment in the event of life-threatening conditions. Unfortunately, clinicians do not always assess the condition of the muscles. Different scales are used to detect sarcopenia at the prehospital stage. In the hospital, the possibility of using scales is limited, and instrumental diagnostic methods are more informative. The most popular is ultrasound imaging of muscle tissue. The dynamics of the severity of sarcopenia is a promising method used to assess nutritional support and rehabilitation measures in resuscitation patients.

Quality Of Life for Individuals with Drug Addiction/Dependence Measure

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chonghua Wan ◽  
Jiqian Fang ◽  
Runsheng Jiang ◽  
Jie Shen ◽  
Dan Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Drug Addiction ◽  
Dependence Measure

Cancer pain management

2014 ◽  
Vol 155 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-99
Author(s):  
Péter Heigl
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Pain Management ◽  
Pain Relief ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Cancer Pain ◽  
Cancer Pain Management ◽  
Medical Activity ◽  
Short Summary ◽  
Adequate Quality

Pain is a significant and alarming symptom of cancer seriously affecting the activity and quality of life of patients. Recent research proved that inadequate analgesia shortens life expectancy. Therefore, pain relief is not only a possibility but a professional, ethical and moral commitment to relieve patients from suffering, as well as ensure their adequate quality of life and human dignity. Proper pain relief can be achieved with medical therapy in most of the cases and the pharmacological alternatives are available in Hungary. Yet medical activity regarding pain relief is far from the desired. This paper gives a short summary of the guidelines on medical pain management focusing particularly on the use of opioids. Orv. Hetil., 2014, 155(3), 93–99.

“Position Paper” Timely Insulinisation in Type 2 Diabetes Patients

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-444
Author(s):  
László Barkai ◽  
Nicolae Hâncu ◽  
György Jermendy ◽  
Maya Konstantinova ◽  
Radu Lichiardopol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Insulin Therapy ◽  
Metabolic Control ◽  
Current Medical ◽  
Position Paper ◽  
Medical Evidence

AbstractThe objective of this position paper is to review the current medical evidence andguidelines regarding the treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and to issue medicalrecommendations strengthening the timely use of insulin in patients with T2DMuncontrolled on noninsulin therapy. When noninsulin therapy fails to achieve or tomaintain HbA1c targets, insulin therapy is required. Timely insulin therapy couldprovide proper metabolic control that might prevent complications, lead toimprovement of life expectancy and quality of life.

Anxiety-depressive disorders and quality of life in patients with atrial fibrillation

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (Supplement_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
T Demenko ◽  
G.A Chumakova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Life Assessment ◽  
Mild Depression ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Group 1

Abstract Background Mental disorders in patients with cardiovascular disease have a significant impact on the course, the prognosis of the underlying disease and quality of life (QOL). Objective We aimed to examine the prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders and their impact on the quality of life in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Materials and methods In 52 with permanent AF and 50 with paroxysmal AF patients, we administered the depression scale Tsung, the scale of situational anxiety (SA) and personal anxiety (PA) Spielberger-Hanin; QOL was assessed the SF-36 quality of life assessment scale. Correlation analysis using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. Results The prevalence symptoms mild depression situational or neurotic genesis was 21.1% (12 patients) in Group 1 and 12.0% (6 patients) in Group 2 (p>0.05). Subdepressive state was two percents of patients in Group 1 and Group 2. The incidence SA was 59.6% (31 patients) in Group 1 and 52.0% (26 patients) in Group 2. The incidence PA was 74.0% (37 patients) in Group 2 and 67.3% (35 patients) in Group 1. The average score the physical component of health (PCH) was 29,8±4,3 in Group 1, the mental component of health (MCH) – 49.5±7.4 points; p<0.05. In Group 2: PCH – 44.8±6.6 points, MCH – 26.6±7.5 points; p<0.05. Correlation analysis showed negative strong correlations between SA and MCH (r=−0.64, p=0.0005) and between PA and MCH (r=−0.69, p<0.0001), between SA and PCH (r=−0.71, p=0.0001), between depression and PCH (r=−0.69, p=0.023). Negative statistically significant correlation between depression and MCH (r=−0.69, p=0.54) and negative medium correlation between depression and PCH (r=−0.64, p=0.23). Conclusion These findings suggest that we did not identify patients with symptoms of a true depressive (that can cause pseudodementia and influenced to complete tests). 16.5% patients with AF had mild depression of situational or neurotic genesis. Depression may be a pathogenetic factor of AF or develop because of paroxysms AF – psychological stress. More than 50% patients in Group 1 and Group 2 had an increased anxiety score. SA is more common in patients with permanent AF, probably because older people difficult to adapt to a new situation. PA is more common in patient with paroxysmal AF, probably because disease is sudden and causes anxiety. The PCH of QOL is more impairment in patients with permanent AF, because complications (for example heart failure) impairment physical activity. However, PCH also reduced in patient with paroxysmal AF, because disease is sudden may occur during physical activity. The MCH of QOL is more impairment in patients with paroxysmal AF, because waiting attack effect on mental health and social functioning. An increased level of anxiety and depression negatively affected the mental and physical health of patients with AF. Funding Acknowledgement Type of funding source: None

scholarly journals Prediction of all-cause mortality from 24 month trajectories in patient-reported psychological, clinical and quality of life outcomes in uveal melanoma patients

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Brown ◽  
Peter L. Fisher ◽  
Laura Hope-Stone ◽  
Heinrich Heimann ◽  
Rumana Hussain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Uveal Melanoma ◽  
Cox Regression ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Tumor Diameter ◽  
Control Variables ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
All Cause Mortality

AbstractA number of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) predict increased mortality after primary cancer treatment. Studies, though, are sometimes affected by methodological limitations. They often use control variables that poorly predict life expectancy, examine only one or two PROs thus not controlling potential confounding by unmeasured PROs, and observe PROs at only a single point in time. To predict all-cause mortality, this study used control variables affording good estimates of life expectancy, conducted multivariate analyses of multiple PROs to identify independent predictors, and monitored PROs two years after diagnosis. We recruited a consecutive sample of 824 patients with uveal melanoma between April 2008 and December 2014. PROs were variables shown to predict mortality in previous studies; anxiety, depression, visual and ocular symptoms, visual function impairment, worry about cancer recurrence, and physical, emotional, social and functional quality of life (QoL), measured 6, 12 and 24 months after diagnosis. We conducted Cox regression analyses with a census date of December 2018. Covariates were age, gender, marital and employment status, self-reported co-morbidities, tumor diameter and thickness, treatment modality and chromosome 3 mutation status, the latter a genetic mutation strongly associated with mortality. Single predictor analyses (with covariates), showed 6-month depression and poorer functional QoL predicting mortality, as did 6–12 month increases in anxiety and 6–12 month decreases in physical and functional QoL. Multivariate analyses using all PROs showed independent prediction by 6-month depression and decreasing QoL over 6–12 months and 12–24 months. Elevated depression scores six months post-diagnosis constituted an increased mortality risk. Early intervention for depressive symptoms may reduce mortality.

Addison’s Disease Presenting with Abdominal Pain

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-103
Author(s):  
Tejal Desai ◽  
◽  
Tristan Richardson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Abdominal Pain ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Adrenal Insufficiency ◽  
Unusual Case ◽  
Primary Adrenal Insufficiency ◽  
Prompt Treatment ◽  
Bilateral Destruction ◽  
Important Disease

Primary Adrenal Insufficiency is due to bilateral destruction of the adrenal cortex and has a prevalence of approximately 40-60 per million adults. 1 The commonest cause is autoimmune. 1 Prompt treatment not only restores quality of life but also a normal life expectancy. 2 Here we present an unusual case of primary adrenal insufficiency, which illustrates how such an important disease often provides a diagnostic conundrum.

scholarly journals Physical Literacy and Human Flourishing

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. Durden-Myers ◽  
Margaret E. Whitehead ◽  
Niek Pot
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Physical Literacy ◽  
Human Capability ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between physical literacy and human flourishing. Understanding the contribution physical literacy may have in nurturing human flourishing extends the philosophical rationale and importance of physical literacy in relation to maximizing human potential. This article proposes that the concept of physical literacy is being embraced worldwide, in part due to the contribution physical literacy may make in nurturing human flourishing. Therefore, this article discusses the relationship between physical literacy and human flourishing in detail, unveiling what value this connection may hold in promoting physical literacy as an element integral in enhancing quality of life. Aspects of human flourishing are presented and examined alongside physical literacy. Synergies between physical literacy and human flourishing are not hard to find, and this gives credence to the growing adoption of physical literacy as a valuable human capability.

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