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The paper presents sustainable development and quality of life defi nitions. The issues of quality of life measurement and monitoring of local sustainable development strategies were also presented. The role of local sustainable development strategies in the quality of life improvement on local level was indicated.
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Quality of life surveys should be an important part of the comprehensive management of urban areas. This especially refers to Poland where the integration but also a competition between metropolises has just started. Positioning studies conducted in relation to the local communities living in large cities are a valuable source of information. They are a useful tool to identify the attractiveness of metropolises which helps to compare their position to other cities, diagnose potential weaknesses and the application of development strategies allowing to increase the quality of life and hence the competitiveness. The purpose of the paper is analysis of quality of life indicators in Polish metropolises and measuring their position in term of quality of life, using the selected indicators. The study was conducted on the example of 10 largest cities in Poland: Warszawa, Poznań, Wrocław, Katowice, Lublin, Bydgoszcz, Gdańsk, Kraków, Szczecin, Łódź. The selection criterion was the number of urban residents which ranges from 307 thousands (Katowice) to 1,7 million (Warszawa). It was decided that the analysis will focus on indicators that illustrate different dimensions of quality of life. The data were classified into 8 categories that reflect different aspects of quality of life in cities
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By now, neither socialist planned economy, nor market economy, nor the noble public environmental movements have brought reliable instruments of managing ecological aspects of the quality of life. Perhaps, it would be helpful to try to use here the methods of the concept of total quality management, so popular in business management. The main aspects of the quality of life management deriving from quality management positions are: priority of consumer requirements, which in our case means that when evaluating any projects, human interests must be considered higher than any system interests; priority of quality, which means rejecting such alternative options as the “consumer society” concept and radically ecological one, and leads to considering life period expectancy as the main target index; managing processes, not product specific- quality; involvement of all the personnel of organization (the whole population); huge role of continuous training; formalization of input and output control, including standardization and certification procedures.
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Drawing on Simone de Beauvoir’s call for a change perspective on old age, as perceive, this article reviews the literature for factors and aspects that influence the quality of life of the elderly. Simone de Beauvoir saw old age as the individual’s unending struggle with the indifference that elderly people encounter, and with pain and illnesses. The improvement in the situation of the elderly cannot be accomplished by merely raising pensions and providing fair housing; rather it is necessary to have a more profound change – a change of life (de Beauvior, 1996). Hence, improving the quality life of elderly people necessitates a more holistic approach, that considers physical functioning, mental, social, environmental and cognitive condition in addition to traditional aspects involving health and economic aspects.
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Having a home has been cited as a principal good, both in economic and social terms. It plays a key role in human life. Having a home often determines other decisions, such as getting married, starting a family, and changing jobs. Research papers dealing with the question of home ownership or tenancy, as well as various publications issued by the government and non-government organisations, emphasise the problem of a housing deficit. However, the question of the quality of housing resources is raised less often. Living conditions are one of the research areas investigated in studies concerning the quality of life. The purpose of this article is to assess the quality of Poland’s housing resources at the regional level, using data from 2003 and 2016 and aided by Perkal’s synthetic indicator. According to this indicator, the Mazowieckie Voivodeship had the highest value (0.849), and the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship the lowest one (-0.722).
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Incredible advances in medical treatment and technology caused a decrease in newborn mortality as well as increase in survival of infants with serious functional and structural deficiencies. This situation creates numerous medico-legal and ethical dilemmas strictly associated with value of life with serious dysfunctions. This review presents the main bioethical options concerning the value of newborn life, usefulness of these rules in problematic situations and reasons for domination of one of these ethical points of view in practical decisions.
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The present paper is concerned with measuring public health on the national level both as a determinant of life quality and as an area of sustainable development in its social dimension. The Sustainable Development Indicators Application is a publicly available tool for monitoring the condition of society. It was developed in the Statistical Office in Katowice in cooperation with the Statistical Office in Wroclaw, and launched on the official website of the Central Statistical Office of Poland in February 2016. The SDI Application is a proposal of official statistics for disseminating and presenting information on the sustainable development of the country. It includes a set of indicators grouped into areas within four domains: social, economic, environmental and institutional-political on the national, regional and local levels. SD indicators on the national list monitor goals referring to sustainable development, set out in national strategic documents, including quality of life, which underlies social, economic and institutional-political development of the country. Currently, the Polish SDI set is being further developed according to the guidelines outlined in the 2030 Agenda adopted at the UN Summit in 2015.
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Purpose: Recent studies have shown that the role of social support is a predictive factor influencing the course of the disease. The current study is focused on patients’ assessment of quality of life and the relationship of the latter with perceived social support. Materials and methods: A total sample of 40 hemodialysis patients voluntarily participated in this study. Participants were recruited from two clinics in Athens and have been under hemodialysis. The measures used were the Missoula- Vitas Quality of Life Index–15 and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. For the data analysis descriptive statistics, parametric Pearson r test and Non-parametric Spearman’s rho test were used. Statistical level was set up at 0.05. Results: The results of the current study provide good quality of life of hemodialysis patients and significant statistical significance between quality of life in several domains. Conclusions: This study concludes that the participants’ assessment of quality of life is poor regarding the well-being dimension. Also, perceived social support is significantly related to quality of life
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Purpose: To characterize the symptoms of urinary incontinence of women suffering from pelvic organ disorders (POP) and the effect of these problems on quality of life (QoL). Materials and methods: 215 women from rural regions diagnosed with POP were examined. The research implemented the Life Satisfaction Questionnaire (LISAT-11), used to assess quality of life; the Sexual Quality of Life-Female (SQoL-F) questionnaire, which was employed to assess sexual activity; and the Gaudenz-Incontinence questionnaire, served to assess the occurrence of symptoms of urinary incontinence as well as to define the type of urinary incontinence and its degree of escalation. Results: The average age of the participants was 54.8 years. Most of the participants had urinary incontinence (159; 73.95%). Women with POP and symptoms of urinary incontinence achieved a lower indicator of the sexual function QoL (median - 61.00) when compared to those not suffering from urinary incontinence (median- 78.00). Differences between the groups were statistically significant (p=0.002). The general indicator of QoL for women with symptoms and those without symptoms of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) did not reveal any significant differences between the groups (p=0.643). Conclusions: Urinary incontinence in women with disorders of pelvic floor muscle functions has an insignificant effect on general QoL, whereas it has a decidedly negative impact on sexual function QoL.
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the development potential of the regions of the Czech Republic. The evaluation of regional development is based on the assessment of regional disparities through the application of development potential indexes. These indexes are used for analysing the environmental and social and cultural conditions in the regions of the Czech Republic, as well as for ranking the regions in terms of quality of life. For the calculation of the development potential indexes, multivariate analysis-factor analysis methods were applied to identify the variables that have the strongest influence on a region´s overall evaluation.
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The aim of the study presented was to verify empirically a conception of workaholism as a multidimensional syndrome. The study also investigated the notion of ‘functional’ and ‘dysfunctional’ types of workaholic, on the basis of the participants’ cognitive evaluations of their quality of life. The research group comprised Polish managers who had graduated with, or were studying to attain, a Master’s degree in Business Administration. The 137 participants completed a set of questionnaires that were based on five different research tools. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the theory that workaholism has a three-dimensional structure that includes behavioural, cognitive, and affective dimensions. Using cluster analysis, three types of worker were identified, two of which represented types of workaholic with different scores for the dimensions of workaholism and for aspects of quality of life. The research demonstrated that workaholism is a three-dimensional construct. It enabled the integration of different perspectives and also confirmed that dysfunctional and functional types of workaholic exist. Furthermore, this paper provides practical insights about workaholism for practitioners of human resources that can be used in the selection and evaluation of employees.
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This paper contains a short version of my presentation in two conferences. One of them “International endeavours to study quality of life”, took place in Wrocław on 7 March 2011, the second one, “Quality of life as a subject of statistical survey”, took place in Poznań on 18 April 2012. This paper also includes a short review of selected Polish publications.
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Wstęp. Niedoczynność tarczycy jest chorobą przewlekłą, wymagającą zazwyczaj dożywotniego leczenia hormonalnego. Pomimo terapii w jej przebiegu niejednokrotnie pojawiają się dokuczliwe objawy, takie jak: zmęczenie, senność, stany depresyjne, zaparcia, ciągłe uczucie zimna, a w przypadku stosowania zbyt dużych dawek – symptomy nadczynności tarczycy. Niedoczynność tego gruczołu może być przyczyną subiektywnie obniżonej jakości życia i zmian w dotychczasowym funkcjonowaniu biopsychospołecznym. Cel pracy. Określenie wpływu niedoczynności tarczycy na jakość życia. Materiał i metody. W badaniu wzięło udział 60 osób (56 kobiet i 4 mężczyzn) w wieku powyżej 18 lat z rozpoznaną niedoczynnością tarczycy, będących pod kontrolą poradni endokrynologicznej w roku 2010 i grupa 40 osób zdrowych (35 kobiet i 5 mężczyzn) bez rozpoznanej choroby tarczycy. W pracy zastosowano analizę dokumentacji medycznej oraz kwestionariusz do oceny jakości życia WHOQoL-BREF. Wyniki. Średnia jakości życia chorych jest gorsza niż grupy kontrolnej i wynosi odpowiednio (3,4 ± 0,83 vs. 3,8 ± 0,56), przy czym nie stwierdzono tutaj zależności statystycznej. Samoocena stanu zdrowia w grupie osób chorych jest zdecydowanie gorsza (2,8 ± 0,89) i jest istotna statystycznie. W każdej z domen chorzy na niedoczynność tarczycy osiągnęli gorsze wyniki niż grupa kontrolna. Różnice istotne statystycznie p < 0,05 zaobserwowano w domenie somatycznej, psychologicznej i socjalnej kwestionariusza WHOQoL-BREF. Wnioski. Badania nie wykazały zależności między subiektywną oceną jakości życia osób chorych na niedoczynność tarczycy a faktem zachorowania. Natomiast choroba oddziałuje na jakość życia zależną od zdrowia i na poszczególne dziedziny życia. Czynniki społeczno-demograficzne wpływają na wyniki jakości życia w tej grupie chorych.
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Background. Hypothyroidism is a chronic disease requiring lifelong treatment which is usually hormonal. Despite its progress in therapy often appear bothersome symptoms such as fatigue, sleepiness, depression, constipation, constant feeling of cold. Hypothyroidism can cause subjectively reduce in quality of life and changes in the functioning of the biopsychosocial status. Objectives. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of hypothyroidism on quality of life. Material and methods. The study involved 60 patients (56 women and 4 men) aged over 18 years diagnosed with who were under the control of the endocrine clinic. In the study we used medical data analysis and the WHOQoL-BREF questionnaire to assesa the quality of life in patients with hypothroidism. Results. The average quality of life of patients with hypothyroidism is worse than in the control group (3.4 ± 0.83 vs. 3.8 ± 0.56). Self-assessment of health status in the group of patients with: is much worse (2.8 ± 0.89) than in the control group and it is statistically significant. In each domain, patients with hypothyroidism have achieved worse results than the control group. Differences statistically significant p < 0.05 was observed in the somatic, psychological and social domain of the WHOQoL-BREF. Conclusions. The study found no relationship between subjective assessment of the quality of life of people with hypothyroidism and the fact of illness. In contrast, the disease affects the quality of life, health and dependent on individual areas of life. The socio-demogrfaic factors influence the results.
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Introduction: There are many indications for a stoma surgery; however, most frequently it is the severity and progression of colorectal cancer. The result of surgical procedure is frequently a stoma. In view of the increasing prevalence of colorectal cancer and delaying stoma surgery particular attention should be paid to the aspects of quality of life and adaptation to a new life situation in patients with a stoma. Purpose: To evaluate satisfaction with life and management of difficult situations in people with the stoma. Materials and methods: The study included 200 people from three provinces: Podkarpackie, Małopolska, and Zachodniopomorskie. The study was performed by means of a diagnostic survey in a form of the author’s questionnaire and two standardized tools: the SWLS (satisfaction with life scale) and the GSES (generalized self-efficacy scale). A chi-square test for independence was used for a statistical analysis. Results: The research found that for 56.5% of the respondents a stoma formation had a strong negative impact on their functioning both in personal, family and social life. In the opinion of 12.5% of the respondents intestinal stoma was the reason for giving up work. It was also found that there was a correlation between the level of satisfaction with life and education - higher education favors a higher level of satisfaction with life. Conclusions: This study showed that there is a positive relationship between the level of life satisfaction and the sense of self-efficacy. The higher self-efficacy, the higher satisfaction with life among the respondents were found.
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The paper discusses the phenomenon referred to as the disability paradox by analyzing the concept according to three main aspects: semantic inconsistency, relationships between objective and subjective indicators, differences in beliefs regarding quality of life determinants, the sense of happiness and other positive life experiences reported by outsiders and insiders. Within these three semantic areas, issues are addressed presenting grounds for the perceived contradiction between the two phenomena: disability and high quality of life. What is more, the paper introduces topics for discussion providing arguments for questioning premises supporting validity of the disability paradox.
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The main aim of the article is an attempt to determine the importance of a targeted form of physical activity, i.e. Pilates, on psychomotor functions in women who practice this method. It seems important to search for appropriate, socially recognized values which promote health and are conducive to a health-oriented lifestyle, especially among women in middle adulthood. The study was based on a natural experiment involving 40 middle-aged women who participated in Pilates classes from the beginning of October 2013 to the end of September 2014. The one-year Pilates programme was found to have a significant impact on improving the participants’ health awareness. The study indicates an improvement in elements of physical fitness, especially in the first (known as enthusiastic) stage of participation (from October 2013 to April 2014). Over the course of the year, significant differences were found in the measurements of all the selected elements of physical fitness. The greatest progress was recorded in body flexibility. It can be concluded that targeted exercises improve physical fitness, particularly body flexibility, contribute to reducing low back pain, thereby improving the quality of life.
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The article presents the idea that the maximisation of profit seems not to be the most important goal for contemporary enterprises. The author – basing on literature and empirical research – tries to indicate those activities undertaken by enterprises in the interest of the local community that have an impact not only on building managers' mental well-being and quality of life. They are also different kinds of CSR activities, but they could also be considered as proof of changing the economic model. The article ends with conclusions in which the author tries to answer the following question: what kind of profit could bring about the realisation of that new model.
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The following article is the third publication presenting the results of a study concerning the professional activity of handicapped people (see: „Nauka” 1/2008 and „Nauka” 2/2008). The purpose of this part of the research was to determine whether there is a relationship between professional status, life satisfaction, and various personal competencies among handicapped people. Apart from this, we also wanted to establish what conditions personal competencies by focusing on social-demographic factors and disability characteristics. The tested competencies were isolated from the administered questionnaire using a factor analysis. Seven factors were found: locus of control, level of aspiration, potential for development, effort invested in development, impulsiveness, stamina, and mood. Analysis of the results leads to the following conclusions: (1) personal competencies are significantly related to professional activity for handicapped people, as is level of life satisfaction, (2) personal competencies are related to external factors shaping the development of handicapped people, such as: dwelling, gender, level of disability, and type of disability.
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