Open AccessHealth and human capital: on the issue of social well-being of population
Author(s) -
Emiliano Mettini,
N. V Prisiajnaia
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
sociologiâ mediciny
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2942
pISSN - 1728-2810
DOI - 10.18821/1728-2810-2016-15-2-73-79
Subject(s) - dialectic , human capital , value (mathematics) , social capital , capital (architecture) , investment (military) , sociology , point (geometry) , population , positive economics , social psychology , psychology , economics , political science , epistemology , social science , economic growth , geography , philosophy , law , computer science , geometry , mathematics , demography , archaeology , machine learning , politics
The article presents analysis of modern concepts concerning value of health from point of view of human capital and from positions of competitiveness. It is noted that health capital comes out as investment project for human capital. The multiple-aspects of health conditions, dynamics of alterations of these conditions in many ways depend on internal stimulating motives of individual, life conditions, specifics of social environment, life situation. From this point of view, health is a socially conditioned occurrence playing dialectic role in relationships of human with society, with others and with oneself.