QUALITY OF LIFE AND SPIRITUALITY

Quality of life is a concept often used at the level of European health policies, being considered an important factor for general strategy orientation from Public Health System. There are some simultaneous discourses about core values integrated in this latent multidimensional construct and, sometimes, there are interrelated tensions between liberty and equality, between individualism (quality of life of society members) and collectivism (quality of societal life) and between subjective and objective components of quality of life. We bring to discussion a few models which emphasized the interdependence between these oppositions or complementarities and we underlined the importance of spirituality in evaluation of subjective quality of life.