Health and Social Care: Analyzing Factors Affecting Quality of Life

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the factors affecting the quality of life in the context of health and social care. It delves into various elements such as material living conditions, productive activities, physical and psychological health, and relationships with others, highlighting how these factors influence an individual's well-being and resilience. The report also outlines essential caring techniques aimed at improving the quality of life, including generating satisfaction, continuous learning, staying active, and focusing on healthy eating and personal hygiene. Furthermore, it addresses potential constraints to positive caring and suggests possible solutions, emphasizing the importance of addressing both physical and mental health to enhance overall quality of life. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide range of study resources for students.

HEALTH AND
SOCIAL
CARE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Factor affecting the quality of life..........................................................................................1
Essential caring techniques and why they are important........................................................4
Constraints to positive caring with a possible solution..........................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The 5W is usually identified as the Who, Where, why, what, and when. In the context of
quality of life, the 5W state that quality of life promote wellbeing. The Who indicates in terms of
quality of life means the health and wellbeing where a person or individual show their happiness
and absence with the disease. With this, it also that the quality of life present within the all living
being who used to take oxygen food and perform activity for the survival. The Why provides a
truth that the generation and offspring are regulated, and this is done by offering to quality of life
towards the others, and why show the major aim of life that provide consistency. The What show
the aspect, and in term of quality of life, it is defined as a where a physical entity is regulated
with the period of biological process. It starts with the natural process and ends with the birth
process. The last W is when and it is associated with life. Overall, there are various definitions
related to the study of life. In addition, the quality of life is defined as the standard of health,
comfort, and happiness which is usually experienced by an individual or a group of people.
Quality of life is also associated with individual well-being and health. Moreover, the quality of
life is well estimated that the individual is showing the absence of disease and develop their
resilience that is providing an opportunity to grow and develop themselves in the open
environment which is providing quality of health and wellbeing.
MAIN BODY
Factor affecting the quality of life
The quality of life is an essential aspect of a person's health and wellbeing. In addition,
some of the factors usually affect the quality of life of individuals. These typically include
physical health, psychological health condition, independence, relationship with others, and the
environment where people live. Therefore, based on academic research and several initiatives,
some other factors are overarching the measurement of wellbeing (Ten Ham, Broering,
Cooperberg, Carroll & Wilson, 2020). Some of them are material living conditions income,
consumption and material condition, the product or the main activity, health, education, leisure
and social interaction, economic security and physical safety, governance and the basic rights,
natural and living environment, and overall experience of life. It is usually considered as the
potential trade between them.
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Material living condition: The material living condition is usually measured based on three
subdomains w: income consumption and material conditions. The lack or the shortage may
create the issue configured with quality of health and quality of life (Priyadarshani & Kumari,
2021). Within the context of quality of life, they are the basic need that generally helps to
generate wellness among the people and show effective tend of having the reliable quality of
health. In addition, income is the critical indicator that may impact most of the hands in the
framework. There are several different indicators within the section of sub-dimension taken from
the national accounts and the household survey that shows net national income, household
disposable income. The same is true for consumption within which some of the indicators are
used to be taken from the federal account.
Productive or main activity: The effective or main activity is defined as the dimension measured
through the three sub-dimensions that help build the quality of life and if any hindrance occurs
when they also affect the quality of life. The size usually includes the quantity of employment,
quality of jobs, and other main activity that are inactive and unpaid work. Some activities fill up
citizen lives every day, the most prominent being their work. The indicator usually helps to
analyze the quantity and quality of jobs available working hours, balancing work and non-
working life, safety, and employment ethics. These three dimensions help produce the quality of
life (Khalil, Hidayanto & Prabowo, 2020).
Health: Health is defined as the essential and significant objective for quality of life. It is also
considered as the form of human capital. The health dimension majorly includes health outcome
indicators such as life expectancy, the number of healthy life years, and the subjective
assessment of own health chronic disease and limitation in activity (Ilacqua, Izzo, Emerenziani,
Baldari, & Aversa, 2018). Poor health can affect the general progress of society. The physical
and mental issues also play an influential role based on the detrimental effect of subjective
health. Health is a subjective factor of an individual because it is a helpful aspect in order to
provide a quality of life. In this, health is usually playing a significant role in the individual's
happiness and resilience because of the absence of disease that may create complexities
regarding the living condition. Predominantly, it also provides a core aspect regarding the basic
objective of chronic diseases and their limitation. Moreover, health is a crucial aspect for the
individual to think critically and evaluate themselves in an optimistic way that shows the
occurrence of productivity for their life (Wong & Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of
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Child Health, 2021). Moreover, the number of people is used to follow various patterns and
dimensions that lead to creating a healthy lifestyle. In this, the proper exercise, diet, and routine
are used to follow that is productive and create the aspect of quality-based life. In this, health is a
necessary aspect that is useful in order to conduct a chain regarding the betterment of individual
or person to prepare a normal and free from disease that may create complication and
consequences and impact the quality of life (Burch, Taylor, Wilson & Norton, 2021).
Physical health: Physical health is also contributed to the quality of life. Moreover, the proper
movement from one place to another and performing the day-to-day activity create well-being
among the number of populations. Any disability or poor physical health can lead to create the
consequences and formulate various disease states. As per this, the condition becomes critical
and it directly affects the quality of life. Moreover, the individual is usually feeling free and
independent due to the day-to-day activity that is performed by the individual. In addition, the
regular task that individuals need to be performed is completed within their regular days provide
them proper wellbeing. Poor physical health creates consequences that may produce difficulty in
order to generate the issue regarding the quality of life. Physical health is directly proportional to
the quality of type because once the physical health care becomes inaccurate the person feels sick
and diseased. Moreover, the movements and activities are completely restricted which creates a
mental factor that affects the wellbeing and resilience which follow the influence towards the
quality of life (Downing, Akinlotan, & Thornhill, 2021).
Psychological condition: Poor psychological conditions may create issues with a person's life. In
addition, it directly creates the untreated condition or mental illness that can cause impact the
person lies with the demonstration of severe emotional behavioral, and physical health issues.
The complications are usually linked with mental health in less that include happiness and
decrease enjoyment of life (Wang, 2022). Moreover, they also promote family conflict due to
poor mental health as per the instruction of psychological conditions. In addition, the
psychological condition provides a person to think critically and evaluate themselves for well-
being and find the way which is necessary to fulfill the resilience and happiness but due to the
poor mental health or the psychological condition. The person is not able to quantify or measure
the right path that provides them happiness and promotes quality of life. Therefore, the improper
psychological situation is associated with the individual can interrupt the quality of life in all
ways (Engelen, Rahmann & de Jong, 2022).
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Relationship with others: Communication and interaction with some people are helpful in order
to develop the relationship. Moreover, the inappropriate behavior among the social group and
community and regular ignorance from the people affect the quality of life of people. In this, if
any interruption or disturbance are used to be created among the relationship with others can also
render and impact the individual mental health that promotes improper quality of life. Humans
are social well-being that they generate their happiness while communicating and interacting
with several people. whereas, the individual gets stuck in such a consequence that is not reliable
and appropriate to formulate the relationship with others that may interrupt and create hindrance
with their well-being and happiness. Moreover, such aspects can create a negative impact on the
mental health of the individual and also affect the quality of life (Grove et. al., 2021).
Essential caring techniques and why they are important
Many techniques are essential to promote or improve the quality of life and they are very
important from the viewpoint of an individual because they provide wellbeing and resilience.
Moreover, it is also analyzed that several paths are used to be taken in order to promote healthy
and effective life. In this, some of the essential caring techniques are used to be taken into
consideration that generates the quality of life. These include
Generate satisfaction: Satisfaction towards elements or any components is the vital or
primary that is followed by an individual to improve the quality of life. Satisfaction is a contact
that generates efficacy that is related to the fulfillment of needs and requirement that a person
wants for their life. Satisfaction is usually providing resilience is the intrinsic factor that may
promote and improve people's needs and desires appropriately. Moreover, the formulation of
reliable and measurable hope and satisfaction may lead to creating reduced stress and provide
dimension towards happiness and wellbeing. It directly impacts the individual to develop the
quality of life due to improved resilience and hope from the upcoming scenario (Inocian et. al.,
2021).
Try to learn something new every day: In this, make each day part of the knowledge that
is associated with the learning that provides essential element towards the happiness, satisfaction
that relieves the mind, it also helps in order to place the lives of an individual by providing a
perspective that based on generating of knowledge about all the trauma that usually show their
occurrence around the world. Moreover, try to read articles, books, and read the people
documentary to know what challenges they are facing in their life and how they are resolved. It
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generates motivation and inspiration that produce knowledge regards with the hurdles of life.
Overall, such a technique is useful to improve the quality of life and provide independence
(Mace et. al., 2021).
Stay active: People usually stay active by performing physical activities that show the
context regards physical health. They used to perform exercise and regulate a healthy diet to stay
active. However, there is a third crucial component that provides shape and this is referred to as a
daily activity. Moreover, it is recommended for the individual to make an effort to walk at least a
thousand steps every day to keep themselves physically active. These little steps can help the
people in order to provide a shape but also can show the outcome in the improved mood and
quality of life (Sweeny et. al., 2021).
Focus on eating well and personal hygiene: Eating well is also an effect that contributed
towards healthy living. Moreover, the individual needs to take some of the healthy diets such as
fruit, vegetables, protein, low calorie, carbohydrate, and healthy fat. In addition, the focus on
eating well contributed to health and is directly proportional to the quality of life. Healthy eating
can reduce stress and generate the factor which is contributed towards a healthy lifestyle.
Moreover, personal hygiene is also taken under to reduce the consequences that may affect due
by the infection. Personalized hygiene built an effective surrounding that is clean and develops
well-being and improves the quality of life (Miseré et. al., 2021).
Stop stressing: As per the competitive scenario, people are used to getting busy with their
working life. In addition, they do not balance their work-life which generates stress and
frustration for a prolonged period. While working in any organization develop time management
skills and work-life balance that is helpful to improve the quality of life and reduce to getting
stress from work or to family.
Constraints to positive caring with a possible solution
Constraint to positive caring with the possible solution is related to the improvement
towards the quality of life among the population. In this, the individual is usually get impacted
their quality of life due to the presence of disease. The quality improvement initiative with the
positive solution is to reduce medication-related adverse events and decrease medication
administration errors. Moreover, organizing the body's needs as per their want and staying
physically active is associated with a quality-of-life improvement that is required by individuals
to deal with some issues that may affect the quality of life. In addition, the keep moving forward
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with the static and dynamic belief within the power of growth is also so a positive caring attitude
that improves the quality of life (Nguyen et. al., 2021). There are various factors and
improvement tips are related to the quality of life but the possible solution is to reduce the stress
and focus on the goal and objective and maintain the proper time frame to achieve. In this,
people develop a quality improvement with the setting of goals and finding the best route that is
suitable and appropriate for the acceleration of quality of life. Moreover, there are various
techniques and positive caring attributes with the possible solution are survey but the answerable
impact is usually created with the aspect of reducing of obstacles day by day that reduces the
quality of life. In addition, the improvement is not adjusted or achieved in a single day but it is a
continuous process that prolongs time. Moreover, short- and long-term wellbeing and resilience
are reliable for improving the quality of life (Rohilla, et. al., 2021).
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, it is well analyzed that the quality of life is an important aspect for
the individual to grow themselves and develop resilience. Moreover, the quality of life is helpful
in order to provide the best suitable region to live more happily. Therefore, the various factors
which may affect the quality of life such as poor physical health, lack of education regarding
mental health, and many more factors that influence the quality of life. In this, the possible
solution is used to be analyzed in such a way that can positively show the effect and develop the
improved quality of life that produces wellbeing and resilience.
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