title: Greece Financial Crisis and Quality of Life.
abstract: The last six years the global community is facing an economic crisis that first appeared in USA. This crisis has a lot of impacts especially in health sector. Unemployment, job insecurity and the loss of disposable income have a significant impact in health too. The main objective of this research was to investigate the quality of life of the general population in Greece during the financial crisis. To collect the data it has been used the Greek version of Short Form (36) Health Survey (SF-36v2). In general, income, level of education, cohabitation and parenthood had a significant impact in quality of life. As a conclusion, unemployed participants' score was lower in the entire dimensions and in the two summary scales too.
authors.affiliation: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Nursing, Greece.
authors.forename: Aggelos E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Mechili
authors.affiliation: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Nursing, Greece.
authors.forename: Athena
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kalokairinou
authors.affiliation: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Nursing, Greece.
authors.forename: Dafni
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kaitelidou
authors.affiliation: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Nursing, Greece.
authors.forename: Marianna
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diomidous
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D057172:Economic Recession; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece / Q000453:epidemiology; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014478:Unemployment / Q000523:psychology*