SOCIO-CULTURAL AND MEDICAL INDICATORS OF THE SCHOOLCHILDREN'S QUALITY OF LIFE
Jelena Petković* and Slobodanka Bašić**
An estimate of life quality is based upon medical, psychological and social
indicators. It increasingly engages the attention of doctors of medicine,
sociologists and psychologists.
The aim of this research is to headlight some more relevant socio-cultural
parametres in order to determine the quality of life of schoolchildren, that is,
to determine whether the crisis in which our society has found itself has
produced such socio-cultural conditions that could have induced changes in the
children's quality of life and, if they have, to what extent the crisis has been
reflected upon their health. The research has comprised 398 schoolchildren and
their parents, three elementary schools from Nish and one in Sokobanja.
The research of the socio-cultural and medical indicators of their quality of
life has shown that the parent's education and ther material position have had
an important influence upon the children's life quality.
Since there has been no significant presence of any disease recorded in the
observed children's sample, it can be concluded that the socio-cultural features
have affected the children's life but they have not any significant impact upon
their health. Acta Medica Medianae 2003; 42(1):9-12.
Key words: life quality, health, socio-cultural indicators, schoolchildren