Quality of life
- · Quality of life is the satisfaction in terms of physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, needs and interests.
- · Importance of quality of life :-
1. Fulfillment of basic needs
2. Attainment of quality education
3. Management of health services, facilities and sanitation
4. Facilities for maternal and child welfare
5. Opportunities for income generating activities and employment
6. Women empowerment
- · Elements of quality of life :-
1. Nutritious food
2. Family size
3. Health
4. Sanitation
5. Education
6. Family income
7. Security
8. Saving
9. Housing
10. Social cultural values
- · Interrelationship between quality of life and low quality of life – They are inversely proportional to each other.
- · Bases of quality of life
1. Basic needs
Food
Clothes
House
Education
Health
Drinking water and sanitation
2. Physical quality of life index
Mortality rate of under 5 years age children
Life expectancy rate at birth
Literacy
3. Human development index
Life expectancy at birth
Education
Income
- · Efforts for making quality of life
i) Limiting the family size
ii) Managing quality education
iii) Marriage at appropriate age
iv) First pregnancy at appropriate age
v) Birth spacing
vi) Maintenance in health and sanitation
vii) Use of nutritious food
viii) Maintaining gender equity
ix) Bearing the parental responsibility
x) Saving
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