Open AccessHEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF CITIZENS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT
Author(s) -
Irina Zhuravleva,
Журавлева Ирина Владимировна,
Nina Lakomova,
Лакомова Н. В
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
sociologiâ mediciny
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2942
pISSN - 1728-2810
DOI - 10.18821/1728-2810-2018-17-1-35-42
Subject(s) - happiness , optimism , feeling , life satisfaction , context (archaeology) , health care , political science , psychology , social psychology , social science , sociology , law , geography , archaeology
The article presents the analysis of the results of the comparative European Social Study related to health and psychological well-being obtained in the course of the third (2006) and Seventh (2014) waves. The indices of health self-appraisal, satisfaction with one's own life, health care system functioning, social security, feeling of happiness, personal attitudes to charity and environment protection. In majority of listed indices, the positive values of the citizen of Russia are on the last positions in the enumeration of 22 European countries. But while comparing data of 2014 and 2006 the responses of the citizen of Russia demonstrate increasing of positive values and decreasing of negative values. The detected positive trends permit to look for perspectives of social policy in health area with optimism. The reliability of obtained results is substantiated by data of studies of national sociological centers and statistical numbers concerning positive changes in sphere of life related to health of citizen of Russia.