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INEQUALITIES BETWEEN HEALTH AND STATE PERCEPTION. CASE STUDY
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Considered either a determiner of personal life quality, or a determinant of the latter, the population's health state and health state self-perception is studied nowadays by numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations, in order to “agree” upon what really influences our health state. The study's objectives followed in what measure the person's health state (presence or absence of disease) is correlated to his/her perception regarding own health state (in other words, if we have a good health state, we evaluate our health state as being good - how it normally should happen - ) and, if the factors influencing health state are the same with those influencing our perception on our health state?. The inquiry was based on applying a questionnaire on a representative sample (with an error possibility of 4\%) in the upper basin of Bistrita River (Romania) and the statistical analysis of the results was predominantly realized through the descriptive and inferential statistics (Kendal and Spearman correlation coefficients for the qualitative variables and Pearson for the quantitative ones, the linear regression, multifactorial analysis, etc.) using the software application of the statistical programmer SPSS Statistics 14 and 21. The results obtained showed a less significant correlation between the individual's health state and self-perception regarding health state (Kendal correlation coefficient of 0,296 and Spearman of 0,311) and the variables correlating with the first ones are generally different from one case to another. The study's conclusions show that our health state (presence or absence of disease) is in a higher degree correlated to our socio-economical characteristics, comparatively to health self-perception, which seems to be rather correlated to psycho-social factors such as: the quality of interpersonal relationships, social support, self-confidence, etc.)
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