ZDRAVOTNÁ STAROSTLIVOSŤ V KONTEXTE KVALITY ŽIVOTA V MESTE NITRA PRED PANDÉMIOU COVID-19
HEALTHCARE IN THE CONTEXT OF QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE CITY OF NITRA BEFORE THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Author(s): KATARÍNA VILINOVÁ
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: health care; quality of life; Nitra; percepcion;
Summary/Abstract: An important aspect in terms of the health status of the population is the evaluation of quality of life by monitoring selected indicators, which can include health care. Interest in the health of the population is intensifying today. The main reasons include social, political, economic changes, but also the ongoing pandemic related to the spread of the COVID-19 virus. It is part of many values that we place in our quality of life. Improving the health level of the population is a very serious task. At the same time, healthcare is a very important factor in health, which is related to quality of life. The subject of our interest in the presented paper was the acquisition of data with a highly subjective character focused on the issue of health care in the city of Nitra. When choosing methods, we therefore preferred a questionnaire method based on our questionnaire. The questions were aimed at finding out the opinions, attitudes and evaluation of health care as an indicator of the quality of life of the population. We conducted the research in 2019 on a sample of 509 respondents the field and 261 online) in the city of Nitra. The aim of the paper was to analyze the subjective perception of health care in the city of Nitra by the method of perception. Based on the research, it can be stated that the provision of health care, access to health care, together with the length of the waiting time for admission is especially important for the inhabitants of Nitra. However, the most important factor in health care for the inhabitants of Nitra is satisfaction with the health care provided. The most negative respondents perceived the length of the waiting time for admission.

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