Articles with tag: «country people»

    Social aspects of health
  • 2020 № 8 The core vital values and requirements defining quality of life of country people are more senior than working-age of the Kaliningrad region

    Article is devoted to studying specific needs of persons also their interests affecting quality of their life are more senior than working-age. The purpose of work is to reveal the core vital values and requirements defining quality of life of country people is more senior than working-age of the Kaliningrad region. Within the project of Partnership “Northern measurement” in the field of health care and social wellbeing in 2019 the social research among 211 villagers aged from 60 up to 88 years is conducted. Methods of carrying out work: sociological, analytical, mathematical statistics. Distribution of age and gender structure of the interviewed population reflects universal trends. Social and demographic and medico-social characteristics of country people are studied. Results of a research showed that the quality of life of persons is more senior than working-age most is defined by priority vital values and requirements: state of health and level of material welfare; loneliness; difficulties in use of digital technologies; the disrespect shown from youth i.e. quite objective reasons which solution generally depends on the state measures for support of the senior generation. Significant first 10 vital values at elderly people during the different periods of time are tracked.

    Authors: Shikina I. B. [3] Chukhrienko I. Yu. [2] Elizov I. A. [2] Mikhaylova Yu. V. [1] Siburina T. A. [1] Mikhaylov A. Yu. [1]

    Tags: country people2 persons is more senior than working-age1 quality of life7 the social research1 vital values and requirements1

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  • Population and health
  • 2020 № 10 Self-assessment of health and satisfaction with medical care by country people of age 60+ of the Kaliningrad region

    With age the state of health worsens, it is necessary to see doctors more often. Availability and quality of the
    provided medical care, a set of medical services can differ depending on the place of its rendering. The work purpose – to study a self-assessment of a zdorovyapatsiyentama of age 60+ of rural out-patient clinic of the Zelenograd district of the Kaliningrad region and their relation to the organization of the primary health care (PHC) and satisfaction with it. Survey among 211 patients of rural medical out-patient clinic aged from 60 up to 88 years, within the project of Partnership “Northern measurement” in the field of health care and social wellbeing is conducted (further in the text – the Project). The factors offered in the questionnaire having the greatest impact on health, according to patients, and satisfaction with the PHC organization are studied. The patients living in rural areas often visit the medical organizations with the medical and diagnostic and advisory purposes, pay attention to medical examination passing that can testify to an active position of the general practitioner working in the Project as in answers about the factors having the greatest impact on health, questions of prevention at poll got the last place. The satisfaction with the PHC organization made in general 3.6 points on a five-point system.

    Authors: Shikina I. B. [3] Chukhrienko I. Yu. [2] Zadorkina T. G. [1] Mikhaylov I. A. [1] Elizov I. A. [2]

    Tags: country people2 health self-assessment1 patients of age 60+1 primary health care19 satisfaction with medical care3 sociological research3

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