Qualidade de vida, estilo de vida e saúde: um artigo de revisão

Resumo

education have sought to establish the relationship between quality of life, health and lifestyle. There is an emphasis on bio-physiological dimension. However, from the 80s, the presence of other branches of knowledge, especially of Humanities and Social Sciences has been noted in this debate. It focuses on studying the relationship between these constructs in a broader view, considering the multidisciplinarity of social, historical and cultural. Objective: This paper aims to enter into this discussion and has to contribute to the debate conceptual quality of life, health, physical activity and lifestyle and their relationships with health in a broader perspective. Material and Methods: We performed a literature review of articles from MEDLINE, LILACS and SciELO, in Portuguese, using the following descriptors: quality of life, lifestyle, health, and combined with each other, and also in contemporary books. Final Remarks: This study calls attention to the expansion of the concepts related to quality of life issues, lifestyle and health, in addition to the biological dimension and individual came historically been consolidated. This consolidation is important not only to build up a guide for reliable instruments to measure quality of life, but also to that information as a basis for political awareness and social critic, is widespread and incorporated as a concept.

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Qualidade de vida, Quality of life, Estilo de vida, Saúde, Lifestyle, Health

Citação

COSTA JUNIOR, Gilvam Rodrigues et al. Qualidade de vida, estilo de vida e saúde: um artigo de revisão. Revista Amazonia: science & healht, Gurupi, v. 1, n. 1, p. 33-40-40, 2013.