QUALITY OF LIFE

Quality of Life

Quality of Life

Introduction

Quality of life is the term used to describe the way in which people live, the welfare of every individual in society, this term is crucial, because not only is based on the amount of income that people have or wealth they possess, also covers the physical may be the level of health that has that person, also understands the mental wellbeing, such as esteem, affection provided by others, social relations, etc (Megone & Christopher, 1990). Quality of life is a concept of relative daily use, although its explicit references are not always comparable and used indiscriminately to refer to styles or ways of life, or level or standard of living (the latter most sometimes referred to the consumption of goods). For some people, is a luxury of developed countries, in particular those along its history have made extensive investments in human capital and capital social, as well as profound institutional transformations.

For others, it is an ambiguous term that lends itself to multiple interpretations, or a concept that the degrees of complexity and difficulties in their apprehension do not deserve to be defined or measured. For the great majority, quality of life is a concept restricted to the last stages of adult life, linked in many cases - a disease of the terminal or use time off. There are even those who, quality of life is synonymous with carefree living, or complications of any kind.

Discussion

The definition of a life "good” has been present in the concerns of thinking from economic and social times of Aristotle. Adam Smith and Karl Marx, do not develop the concept of quality of life, but consider the work, although with different conceptions and opposite in a sense - as the source of wealth and responsible living. So, the concern for quality of life through the discussion of the science instruments, in particular of philosophy, the economy, the sociology and, more recently, the science of health and education (Feinstein, 1997).

Quality of life understands the level of satisfaction of basic needs that every human being needs to live a decent life. These conditions, which those who administer a state or community should seek to give that govern society are based not only on the material realms but also in areas more momentous. A person required for the full development of his being, not only food, clothing, health and housing, also requires that we be given the necessary conditions for the development of his intellect and capacities, which will provide a way of giving back to society, everything that has been able to provide.

In a similar way, the concern for quality of life has also been in development concerns. Appears limited extent in the literature of the 1950s, in the industrialized societies, and bursts with relative strength in late 1960 and early 1970 (Csikszentmihalyi, 1997). Especially in connection with the theories of welfare and search for links between the political economic and social movements, and influenced by the quality of products and provision ...