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A Social Systems Approach to Self‐assessed Health and Its Determinants in the Digital Era
Author(s) -
Vătămănescu ElenaMădălina,
Alexandru VladAndrei,
Dincă Violeta Mihaela,
Nistoreanu Bogdan Gabriel
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.2545
Subject(s) - psychology , social determinants of health , through the lens metering , social system , digital health , sociology , social psychology , lens (geology) , economics , engineering , social science , economic growth , health care , petroleum engineering
Placing self‐assessed health (SAH) and its determinants within a social systems framework, the current paper aims to investigate the influences of individual characteristics, environmental and socio‐economic factors on the way people rate their own health. The multiplexity and dynamics of social structures are examined through the lens of the digital era, which exerts a substantive impact on the individuals' appraisal of reality and capacity of adjusting to the unfolding of the world. Thus, given the digital‐centric environment contextualizing the activity of white‐collar workers, the study scrutinizes SAH and its determinants based on over 54 000 observations. The findings support the inferred relationships, supporting that SAH is determined by multifield variables to a great extent. © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.