Výskum kvality života príslušníkov Policajného zboru a Ozbrojených síl Slovenskej republiky z pohľadu sociálneho zabezpečenia

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-46
Author(s):  
Radoslav Ivančík ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Scientific Goal ◽  
Adequate Quality ◽  
Social Security Benefits

Police officers and professional soldiers represent a unique, special, distinctive, and irreplaceable resource, necessary for the successful functioning of the Police Force and the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic — organizations directly involved in ensuring the security and defence of the state and its inhabitants. It is they who, with their work, activities, will and commitment, not only participate in the creation of strategies, intentions, and directions of development of both organizations, but also ensure the fulfilment of their mission and the achievement of set goals. Managing the successful and effective functioning of both armed security corps and achieving the desired results requires the constant development of human resources, their management, motivation and ensuring an adequate quality of life for police officers and professional soldiers and their families — corresponding to the demands and risks arising from the police and military professions. One of the key elements in ensuring a satisfactory quality of life is a special social security system. Therefore, the primary scientific goal of the presented study is a comparative analysis of the current development of opinions of members of the Police Force and the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic on the quality of their lives in terms of their social security benefits.

scholarly journals Quality of Life among Older Adults Covered by Various Pension Funds, Tabriz, Iran

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadi Sadighiyan ◽  
Mehdi Abbasian ◽  
Mahmood Yousefi ◽  
Narjes Maasoumi ◽  
Reza Nikanfar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Older People ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Pension Funds ◽  
Comparative Investigation ◽  
Education Level ◽  
The State

Introduction: Quality of life (QoL) is known to be one of the main challenges of the present century in the growing heterogeneous elder population. Therefore, determining the affecting factors of QoL among older people could be imperative. The present study aims at the comparative investigation of the QoL the old people covered by the various pension funds in the city of Tabriz, Iran. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 212 older people in Tabriz, Iran. All of the participants were selected based on a stratified sampling considering the study population’s preliminary distribution in three kinds of funds (the State, Armed forces, and Social security). A reliable Iranian LEIPAD questionnaire was used in a comparative investigation of the older adult’s QoL. Data were analyzed with SPSS 21 using t-test, ANOVA, person corellation tests and multiple linear regression. Results: The majority of the participants were male (84.4%) and married (94.8%). One-third of older people possessed academic qualifications. The average age of pensioners in the State fund was 8 years older than other funds. Social security pensioners received the lowest wages (i.e. 0.76 of State and 0.71 of Armed forces pensioners). The total mean score of QoL was 65.63 ± 12.27 (range: 0-93). The relationship between QoL and education level (β = 0.30) and marital status (β = 0.22) was positive and significant. Moreover, a significant difference was observed between scores of QoL and type of pension funds, marital status, education level (p < 0.05). Conclusion: Pension funds can improve the QoL among older people by increasing the pension amount, quality of services and payment benefits of those covered retirees.

Stress and Quality of Life of Senior Brazilian Police Officers

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 593-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilda E. Novaes Lipp
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Police Force ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Stress Symptoms

This study examines levels of occupational stress, quality of life, work-related stressors, and coping strategies among senior police officers in Brazil. A quantitative questionnaire survey conducted among 418 senior members of the São Paulo Police Force reveals that high-ranking Brazilian police officers perceive their profession as being very stressful. A large proportion (43%) of police officers are found to have significant stress symptoms. A greater proportion of females (54%) than males (40%) are found to have stress. The most frequently reported stressor is interaction with other departments within the police force. Quality of life is found to be deficient in the ‘professional’ and ‘health’ areas. This study is the first to show a clear association between high levels of emotional stress and poor quality of life in Brazilian police officers. The large number of stress symptoms and poor quality of life identified in the present study indicates that there is a need for preventive actions inside the Brazilian police force to motivate lifestyle changes, improve stress-management skills, and promote a better quality of life among high-ranking police officers.

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.

scholarly journals Quality Of Life In Patients With Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker In The Slovak Republic

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (7) ◽  
pp. A496 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Gerlichova ◽  
E. Simkova ◽  
D. Mastiliakova ◽  
I. Matisakova ◽  
J. Bielik
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Cardiac Pacemaker ◽  
Permanent Cardiac Pacemaker

scholarly journals Killing in Combat; the Diverging Mental Health Impact on Distinct Veteran Populations – A Two-Sample Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Espetvedt Nordstrand ◽  
Christer Lunde Gjerstad ◽  
Odin Hjemdal ◽  
Are Holen ◽  
Tore Tveitstul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
The Impact

This study examined the warzone stressors: killing in combat, experiencing personal threats, or traumatic witnessing during deployment in relation to psychological distress, alcohol consumption and quality of life at long-term follow-up. The study was conducted in two samples of Norwegian veterans who had served in Afghanistan (Study 1, N = 4,053) or in Lebanon (Study 2, N = 10,605), respectively. Data were collected through two postdeployment mental health surveys conducted by the Norwegian Armed Forces Joint Medical Services. Using linear regressions, we investigated the impact of warzone stressors on posttraumatic stress symptoms, depression, anxiety, insomnia, alcohol use, and quality of life. In study 1 (Afghanistan veterans), killing was not a significant predictor of psychological distress, alcohol use, or quality of life, when controlling for Personal Threats and Witnessing exposure. In study 2 (Lebanon veterans) killing remained a significant predictor (p &lt; .001) of symptoms of posttraumatic stress, depression, and anxiety, after controlling for other warzone stressors. However, killing was not a significant predictor of alcohol use or quality of life in Study 2. In summary, killing in combat may be associated with increased reports of psychological distress, but there were distinct results in the two studies. Differences in mission statements, rules of engagement, and mental states during combat could explain the diverging outcomes. The results indicate that it may be erroneous to ubiquitously regard killing in combat as a moral stressor, and highlight the importance of clear rules of engagements that accounts for the “on the ground” reality of soldiers.

scholarly journals Euthanasia and suicide: a medical and social discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
V. N. Ostapenko ◽  
I. V. Lantukh ◽  
A. P. Lantukh
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Physician Assisted Suicide ◽  
Adequate Quality ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Strong Explosion ◽  
The Right

Annotation. The problem of suicide and euthanasia has been particularly updated with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused a strong explosion of suicide, because medicine was not ready for it, and the man was too weak in front of its pressure. The article considers the issue of euthanasia and suicide based on philosophical messages from the position of a doctor, which today goes beyond medicine and medical ethics and becomes one of the important aspects of society. Medicine has achieved success in the continuation of human life, but it is unable to ensure the quality of life of those who are forced to continue it. In these circumstances, the admission of suicide or euthanasia pursues the refusal of the subject to achieve an adequate quality of life; an end to suffering for those who find their lives unacceptable. The reasoning that banned suicide: no one should harm or destroy the basic virtues of human nature; deliberate suicide is an attempt to harm a person or destroy human life; no one should kill himself. The criterion may be that suicide should not take place when it is committed at the request of the subject when he devalues his own life. According to supporters of euthanasia, in the conditions of the progress of modern science, many come to the erroneous opinion that medicine can have total control over human life and death. But people have the right to determine the end of their lives while using the achievements of medicine, as well as the right to demand an extension of life with the help of the same medicine. They believe that in the era of a civilized state, the right to die with medical help should be as natural as the right to receive medical care. At the same time, the patient cannot demand death as a solution to the problem, even if all means of relieving him from suffering have been exhausted. In defense of his claims, he turns to the principle of beneficence. The task of medicine is to alleviate the suffering of the patient. But if physician-assisted suicide and active euthanasia become part of health care, theoretical and practical medicine will be deprived of advances in palliative and supportive therapies. Lack of adequate palliative care is a medical, ethical, psychological, and social problem that needs to be addressed before resorting to such radical methods as legalizing euthanasia.

scholarly journals Quality of Life in Patients with Colorectal Cancer in Slovak Republic

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. A749
Author(s):  
N Poliakova ◽  
J Bielik ◽  
M Hrda
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Slovak Republic
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