Quality of Life in relation to Health

It allows us to see how we can generate the well-being of people, in relation to their health, observing the health-disease relationship that is established in individuals, taking into account in their treatment as in the sustenance of life. (1)

Health status is usually conceptualized as an extension of functional status, including measurements of daily activities, bodily functions, emotional state, symptoms and cognitive functions.

Kaplan and Anderson suggest that Quality of Life (QL) and health status are two different concepts, often describing health as the absence of disease and symptoms and defining HRQOL as the effect of health conditions (or disease). ) in operation.

Since its incorporation of CV as a measure of the health status of people, has been one of the concepts that in the field of health has been used more, very few authors who make a distinction with the term quality of life (CV) Frequently, the quality of life related to health - HRVR - is used interchangeably as health status, functional status, quality of life or needs assessment2-5.

It is necessary to take into account that one of the risks of measuring the quality of life specifically focused on the impact of a disease, is to consider the concept exclusively from a functional point of view, mainly addressing the interest in the "normal" and adequate functioning of the person in different aspects of his life, that is, in a functional state.

It should be noted that with "normal" we are referring to the common processes that people tend to perform on a daily basis.

The following scheme is proposed by Wilson and Cleary as a way of looking at the quality of life in relation to health.

As we can see in the previous table there is a series of variables that intervene in our quality of life from the point of view of health, these factors can be modified depending on the attitudes that each person develops, these attitudes are built on the basis of experience and the perception that this one has. Likewise you can build different alternatives or options that allow the individual to understand or assimilate those factors that modify and diminish their quality of life, but it will depend on each of them if they are interested in taking them or looking for other possibilities.

1.- 1. Mceberg GA. Quality of life: a concept analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing 1993; 18: 32-8.