Well-being and subjectively experienced Stress among Doctors of the oncology Institute

Abstract

Health, life satisfaction and subjective well-being are key concepts that directly define the complex of a person’s quality of life, and at the same time they support it and are the most significant determinants. These determinants directly express “how people perceive their place in life, in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and interests” (WHO, 1996, p. 5). In addition to health, satisfaction and economic well-being, work also appears in the ranking of human priorities. The author Uháľ (2006, p. 29) refers to it as the constant, rational and free activity of a person that is based on a sense of creative necessity and the necessity of maintaining life. He adds that it is connected with joy and effort, “which aims to create individual and social good and values of both material and spiritual nature”. According to the author Árpová (2018), the general effort to preserve and improve human health is such a serious task that issues related to it are not only the subject of interest of important national and international institutions and the topic of several international documents, it is also of interest for individual countries and is a priority of their governments. We are talking about the state health policy, which, according to WHO (1999), directly determines the goals, strategies and priorities of the state in the field of healthcare, its support and development, as well as protection and restoration. Several contemporary experts such as Musil (2004) and Géringová (2011) define helping professions as professions based on providing professional assistance to people in difficult life situations. Thus, these professions are significantly different from other professions.