Resumen

PACHECO RODRIGUEZ, Maritza Dania; MICHELENA GONZALEZ, María de los Ángeles; MORA GONZALEZ, Roberto Salvador  y  MIRANDA GOMEZ, Osvaldo. Quality of life related to health in college students. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2014, vol.43, n.2, pp. 157-168. ISSN 0138-6557.

Introduction: ensuring health and quality of life is a prioritized direction of preventive medical work, which encourages qualitative research as a methodological tool for addressing core categories of health-disease process from a psychosocial perspective. Objective: to determine how the perception of quality of life in relation to health in a student population behaves. Methods: an observational, cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted. A questionnaire was applied to 143 students, selected through stratified random method, divided into three strata. Results: 32.9 % of respondents considered to have less favorable quality of life generally. The health quality index was less favorable in women; 81 % of young people stated that their health is satisfactory. Overweight people were four times more affected in their quality of life than normal weight. Conclusions: the health determinant that affects the students interviewed is human biology, what makes us think about the work of health services and the great possibilities of intervention present here.

Palabras clave : health; health promotion; lifestyle; quality of life; primary health care.

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