Among the indicators describing the health status of the population and its representative groups, we usually use a dichotomous division based on the assessment of selected parameters of human biological functioning and on epidemiological measures that take into account the direction, intensity and duration of specific health phenomena. These measures have a positive or negative dimension and a quantitative or qualitative character. The results of quantitative measurements, while retaining their clinical relevance and objectivity, have now lost their value as universal determinants of health. In the face of the transformations taking place in the image and dynamics of diseases and the demographic challenges of the 21st century, the parameter more and more commonly described from the position of positive measures of health is quality of life, which is a compilation of satisfaction and contentment with various objectively and subjectively important spheres of human life.
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