SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN LITHUANIA COMPARED TO OTHER COUNTRIES

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 588-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Štreimikienė ◽  
Neringa Barakauskaitė-Jakubauskienė
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Objective Indicators

The paper presents the definition of quality of life and its relationship with sustainable development. The paper analyses and compares the indicators of quality of life in Lithuania with other countries. A quality of life is an explicit or implicit policy goal. Various measurements and indicators to evaluate a quality of life were proposed during the recent years however there are no widely accepted objective indicators of quality of life able to compare countries. Sustainable development concept proposes new approach to measure quality of life. Therefore the aim of sustainable development is to increase quality of life. Quality of life can be addressed in terms of people health, the state of economy, employment, infrastructure development, crime and environment. All these indicators are interrelated as economic development creates preconditions to maintain public health, develop social and technical infrastructure, to increase employment, to ensure quality of environment, to tackle with crime etc. From the other point of view healthy and satisfied with the quality of life nation have positive impact on stable economic growth.

Social well-being and standard of living as subjective and objective indicators of population's life quality. The relation between the level of happiness and the quality of life of the population

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Olga Vasilieva
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Social Actor ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Objective Indicators

The article is devoted to the issue of sociological measurement of the quality of life of the population. It is argued that the key criteria for the quality of life of the population in the modern world are precisely non-economic indicators - such as subjective well-being, level of happiness, and social mood. The article provides evidence of the need for a subjective way of measuring the quality of life, which allows us to assess the living conditions of people through the prism of their real needs. The article clarifies the definition of quality of life: quality of life is an integrative or complex characteristic of the existence of the population, which can be measured by objective indicators of its standard of living or subjective assessments by members of society of the degree of satisfaction of their own needs. The analysis of the different ways of assessing the quality of life the author comes to the conclusion that the result of an objective method of measuring quality of life is the standard of living of the population, and the result of the subjective method of measuring quality of life - social well-being (subjective well-being, life satisfaction). The author insists that mixing subjective and objective indicators when constructing averaging quality of life indices is inappropriate, since in this case there is a risk of getting an irrelevant average. The conclusion is argued that it is advisable to make objective and subjective types of measurement of quality of life separately from each other, while comparing them with each other. The key input is formulated: the quality of life of a social actor through the prism of the sociological dimension is a measurement of social well - being (subjective well-being, or life satisfaction), and the position of a social actor in society through the prism of the sociological dimension is a social mood. At the same time, the phenomenon of social mood is represented by a synthesis of its static and dynamic components, the first of which represents social well - being, the second-orientation to value experiences and the corresponding readiness to act in a certain way. It is argued that the phenomenon that most generally characterizes the happiness system of an individual or group social subject (actor) is social mood. The definition of the concept of social mood is formulated as a General indicator of the position of a social actor in social reality, according to which social mood is a complex emotional and rational characteristic of an individual or group social actor characteristic of a certain period of time, determined by various aspects of the activity of this actor and determining its practical activity.

Autonomy, identity and health: defining quality of life in older age

2021 ◽  
pp. medethics-2020-107185
Author(s):  
Sara Kate Heide
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Healthcare Team ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Made In

Defining quality of life is a difficult task as it is a subjective and personal experience. However, for the elderly, this definition is necessary for making complicated healthcare-related decisions. Commonly these decisions compare independence against safety or longevity against comfort. These choices are often not made in isolation, but with the help of a healthcare team. When the patient’s concept of quality of life is miscommunicated, there is a risk of harm to the patient whose best interests are not well understood. In order to bridge this gap in understanding and unite seniors with their caretakers as a cohesive team, we need to establish a definition of quality of life. In this paper, my personal experiences with the elderly will be analysed along with five essays on the topic of ageing. These sources provide clear evidence that quality of life for seniors is majorly determined by the ability to preserve one’s lifelong identity. When making difficult decisions in geriatric healthcare, this greater understanding of the determinants of life quality will allow treatments to best serve the elderly. Defining quality of life allows healthcare providers to shift the focus from minimising disability toward maximising ability. I believe this shift would provide seniors with better health outcomes and properly enhance the quality of their years.

scholarly journals Methodology of planning social infrastructure development to create a comfortable urban environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 02018
Author(s):  
Svetlana Ershova ◽  
Tamara Orlovskaya ◽  
Svetlana Shishelova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Social Infrastructure

The article considers the issues of social infrastructure planning. The purpose of the study is to draw up the list of social infrastructure facilities that provide favorable and secure conditions of living, differentiation of placement of these facilities in the territory and interpretation of priorities in planning sustainable development of the city. The authors have analyzed the researches of global cities development problems, the characteristics of life quality of population and the characteristics of the most demanded facilities of social infrastructure. On the base of a general methodological approach, random decomposition and induction methods, taxonomic analysis and expert evaluation, the authors constructed models for planning the placement of social infrastructure facilities. Comparative analysis of the models allowed describing three levels of social facilities placement that provide favorable living conditions and life quality for population. The authors have systemized the indicators of social infrastructure that is significant for the sustainable urban development, largely ensuring the good quality of the urban environment, secure and favorable living conditions. The results of the research can be used as a methodological basis for studying problems of sustainable development of global cities, good quality of urban environment. The authorities can use the results of the research to develop standards for urban planning.

scholarly journals Evaluation of life quality in children with dermatological diseases (literature review)

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
O.M. Mochulska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Skin Diseases ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Clinical Problem ◽  
Healthy Person ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Disease Assessment ◽  
Dermatological Diseases ◽  
The Impact

Skin diseases have become one of the most relevant problem due to their global prevalence and intensive growth nowadays. Significantly increased the interest in studying of the life quality of patients with acute and chronic dermatological diseases. The life quality of the patient is the most objective characteristic of the impact of the disease on the patient's condition and various areas of his activity. Emotional or social disorders caused by the disease often do not allow the patient to feel full and healthy person even if clinical recovery. The peculiarities of patients' perception of somatic disease significantly affect both on its course and on the effectiveness of therapeutic measures. Skin diseases form an aspect of life quality that can be dangerous for the prognosis. Dermatological diseases can lead to significant limitations in the physical, emotional and social aspects of patients' lives and can interfere with success in learning and at work, as well as in personal life. In dermatology to assess the quality of life of patients are used: general medical scales, special dermatological scales, dermatological scales for certain nosologies. Purpose — to analyze literary datas on the research methods of life quality in children with dermatological diseases. Conclusions. Determining and evaluating indicators of life quality in patients is a valuable and reliable indicator of the general condition, that allows to monitor the effectiveness of treatment depending on the patient's condition and creates an objective picture of the disease. Assessment of quality of life in patients with dermatological diseases makes it possible to understand the essence of the clinical problem, to determine the most rational method of treatment, as well as to assess its expected results by parameters that are at the intersection between the scientific approach and the patient's point of view. No conflict of interest was declared by the author. Key words: assessment of life quality, dermatological diseases, children.

scholarly journals On the Relationship of Indicators of Sustainable Development, Quality of Life and the Share of Creative Middle Class

2020 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 04052
Author(s):  
Irina Roshсhina ◽  
Evgeniya Nekhoda ◽  
Galina Kalyanova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
The Relationship

This article describes the study of existence of the relationship between individual factors of sustainable development from a qualitative point of view. It is revealed that new essential characteristics of the “middle class”, connected with sustainable development, are being formed. This makes it necessary to display them by introducing a new concept of “creative middle class”. The purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between improving the environment, the quality of life of the population, the processes of formation of a creative middle class and the results of socio-economic policies to ensure sustainable development of the territory. This study was conducted on the basis of a semi-formalized mass interview. Sustainability is considered for two regions of Siberia (Kemerovo and Tomsk regions), which differ in the specialization of economies: the mining region and the innovation region. In the RIA rating of the Russian regions on the quality of life, these regions, despite the different specialization of economies, occupy fairly close positions, being in the middle of the rating table. The hypothesis regarding the role of the creative middle class as the main subject and the main driver of socio- economic transformations for ensuring the sustainable development of the region in the long term and improving the quality of life of the population has been partially confirmed. This can be explained by the fact that the process of forming a creative middle class is at the initial stage. Manifestations of innovative features in the economic and social activity of the subjective middle class in the Tomsk region were not identified.

scholarly journals Nutritional status and life quality in patients undergoing bariatric surgery

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 35-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Roberto Bezerra da SILVA ◽  
Marcela Ramos de SOUZA ◽  
Evane Moises da SILVA ◽  
Silvia Alves da SILVA
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Bariatric Surgery ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Excess Weight ◽  
Global Epidemic

BACKGROUND: The obesity has achieved an alarming increase in recent years, which led this disease to global epidemic condition. AIM: To evaluate the nutritional status as well as the quality of life of obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery. METHODS: A transversal study was conducted with obese adults of both genders who underwent bariatric surgery by Fobi-Capella technique for at least 30 days. It was evaluated: age, gender, marital status, occupation, weight before surgery, current weight, height, preoperative and current BMI, weight loss and loss of excess weight percentages, presence of clinical manifestations and food intolerances. RESULTS: The sample consisted of 70 patients, being 81.4% female, 37.1% aged 30 to 39 years, 58.6% were married, 41.4% have undergone the bariatric surgery in the last 12 months. It was observed a reduction in BMI from 37.2 kg/m2 (one to three months) to 28.9 kg/m2 (>12 months) and consequent increase in weight loss and loss of excess weight percentages. The most frequent clinical manifestation was alopecia (62.9%). The most reported food intolerance was on the red meat (24%). According to the Baros questionnaire, 50% of patients were classified as having good quality of life. CONCLUSION: The operation of Fobi-Capella proved to be effective in promoting gradual and lasting weight loss. Quality of life was considered good in most patients, indicating that the operation had a positive impact on their lives.

scholarly journals "Quality of life": a brand new concept for research and practice in psychiatry

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo T Berlim ◽  
Marcelo P A Fleck
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
World Health ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

Since the '70s, the assessment of quality of life (QOL) has grown from a 'small cottage' industry to a formal discipline within a coherent theoretical framework, accepted methods, and manifold applications. In recent years, QOL has become increasingly popular as a useful variable tailored to assess the overall impact of diseases and medical treatments from the patient's point of view. In this updating paper, we describe the most frequently used instruments, and discuss the conceptual and practical issues concerning QOL evaluation, as applied to the study of mental disorders. In addition, we present a unifying definition of QOL that has recently been developed by the World Health Organization. Finally, we conclude that QOL measures are potentially useful methods to be applied to research and clinical practice in psychiatry - especially when used to demonstrate the impact of mental illnesses and the possible benefits of therapeutic interventions.

scholarly journals Cittaslow Idea as a New Proposition to Stimulate Sustainable Local Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5039
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Brodziński ◽  
Krystyna Kurowska
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Local Development ◽  
International Association ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Local Sustainable Development

The idea of “good quality of life” cities was introduced to Poland in 2006, when the Polish National Cittaslow City Network was founded i.a. by Lidzbark Warmiński. In the context of popularizing the idea—slow-style of life—it was decided to undertake research aimed at identifying the influence of the Cittaslow concept on the initiation of actions that have a positive impact on local sustainable development. Referring to the main objective of the study, the hypothesis was accepted stating that membership in the Cittaslow network has a positive impact on the local development of the city, as it is a source of new projects undertaken by the authorities that improve the quality of life of the inhabitants and at the same time are implemented with the participation of local communities. The hypothesis was verified in a survey conducted in 2017 and 2019 among the residents of the city of Lidzbark Warmiński, using a questionnaire. As the research shows and the research of other authors confirms, the quality of life in cities belonging to the Cittaslow network has significantly improved over the last few years. Residents also assessed the degree of satisfaction of their needs and the level of development of the local city against other cities in the region. Obtaining the opinion of residents regarding the Cittaslow network as a direction of local sustainable development, as well as assessing its impact on the quality of life of the urban community turned out to be important from the perspective of further analysis. This issue is important because the idea of the international association Cittaslow is to promote the potential of smaller towns as an alternative to living in big cities, the rush and progressive globalization. Cities in the network are committed to sustainable development by shaping a conscious urban policy, the right relationship between economic growth, the environment and improving the quality of life of residents.

scholarly journals Ecological Aspects of Urban Agriculture in the Context of Sustainability

2020 ◽  
pp. 480-491
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Ecological Impact ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Ecological Aspects

Achieving a more sustainable and environmentally friendly approach, following the concepts of sustainable development and searching solutions for improving the quality of life in the context of urban agriculture requires a determination of the environmental aspects of this type of practices in the context of sustainable development. Sustainable urban agriculture combines all the characteristics of urban agriculture, implemented in the concept of sustainability. The aim of the paper is based on the assessment of the ecological impact of urban agriculture to determine its possibilities for improving the life quality in Bulgaria. The paper has the following structure: 1) Literature review of the relevant author’s findings directed at sustainable urban agriculture; 2) Methodological framework of the study; 3) Analysis of the respondents’ opinion about the ecological aspects of urban agriculture for improving the life quality; 4) General conclusions related to the ecological aspects of urban agriculture for improving the life quality. Ecological aspects of urban agriculture to improve the quality of life are revealed on the basis of the respondents’ assessments in terms of the environmental benefits of urban agriculture, the profile of the customers of the products from urban agriculture, the profile of urban agricultural products, applied practices and production methods, pollution of natural resources etc. Some of the conclusions in the paper are related to the opportunities of urban agriculture to ensure food security and food resources in an environmentally friendly manner, optimize and save the use of natural resources, implement green practices, create local employment and encourage the development of the regions. The results are part of the scientific project DN 05/18 Urban agriculture as a strategy for improving the quality of life of urban communities, funded by the Bulgarian research fund.

scholarly journals Socio-economic determinants of the ecosystem of sustainable development of Ukraine

2021 ◽  
Vol 915 (1) ◽  
pp. 012019
Author(s):  
H Lopuschnyak ◽  
N Chala ◽  
O Poplavska
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Economic Determinants ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Economic Nature

Abstract Now the world has felt the effects of events (pandemic, digitalization, etc.), which provoked a change in the socio-economic ecosystem, which the authors propose to understand as a set of objects and subjects, and grouped according to certain interests, including on professional interests related to the definition of priorities and directions of adaptation of society and the state to the existing environment, which includes rules, laws, moral and ethical norms, and thus forms a single whole with them. Realizing the irreversibility of these events and their consequences, it becomes obvious that the transformation of national ecosystems is accelerating, especially under the influence of the ecological program. Thus, the process of adaptation to the new ecosystem of state development and ensuring its sustainability actualizes the study of determinants of socio-economic nature. The author’s research, based on his own methodology, proves that the key factors in ensuring the sustainability of this ecosystem are compliance with high standards of quality of life, maintaining partnerships and public trust in various institutions, taking into account various aspects of security (individual to collective), assessment of the present and forecasting the future.

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