Greece financial crisis and quality of life

Aggelos E. Mechili; Athena Kalokairinou; Dafni Kaitelidou; Marianna Diomidous

doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-538-8-207

Greece financial crisis and quality of life

Aggelos E. Mechili, Athena Kalokairinou, Dafni Kaitelidou, Marianna Diomidous

School of Life and Health Sciences

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Abstract

The last six years the global community is facing an economic crisis that first appeared in USA. This crisis has a lot of impacts especially in health sector. Unemployment, job insecurity and the loss of disposable income have a significant impact in health too. The main objective of this research was to investigate the quality of life of the general population in Greece during the financial crisis. To collect the data it has been used the Greek version of Short Form (36) Health Survey (SF-36v2). In general, income, level of education, cohabitation and parenthood had a significant impact in quality of life. As a conclusion, unemployed participants' score was lower in the entire dimensions and in the two summary scales too.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Enabling Health Informatics Applications
Publisher	IOS Press
Pages	207-209
Number of pages	3
Volume	213
ISBN (Electronic)	9781614995371
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-538-8-207
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	13th International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare, ICIMTH 2015 - Athens, Greece Duration: 9 Jul 2015 → 11 Jul 2015

Publication series

Name	Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume	213
ISSN (Print)	0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)	1879-8365

Other

Other	13th International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare, ICIMTH 2015
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Athens
Period	9/07/15 → 11/07/15

Keywords

Financial crisis
Quality of life
Unemployment
Vulnerable population

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Mechili, AE, Kalokairinou, A, Kaitelidou, D & Diomidous, M 2015, Greece financial crisis and quality of life. in Enabling Health Informatics Applications. vol. 213, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, vol. 213, IOS Press, pp. 207-209, 13th International Conference on Informatics, Management, and Technology in Healthcare, ICIMTH 2015, Athens, Greece, 9/07/15. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-538-8-207

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