Social health and human capital quality of the male population of a Sub-arctic region

• Published in: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
• Main Authors: Belaya, R V, Morozova, T V, Kozyreva, G B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: IOP Publishing 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Republic of Karelia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012101; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012101/pdf; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/539/1/012101

Abstract The article deals with issues related to the human capital of the male population of a depressed sub-Arctic region. The empirical background for the study is data from a sociological survey of 777 men aged 18 to 49. The aim was to evaluate the social wellbeing and health of the male population of the Republic of Karelia, to which end the statistical methods of multivariate data analysis were employed. To quantify the respondents’ social wellbeing and health we designed an integral index based on characteristics of the demographic structure, marital status, family accord, health status, parent-child relationships, deviations, employment. Four levels of men’s social wellbeing and health were distinguished: poor; unsteady; good; steadily good. The conclusion is made that the social wellbeing and health of men correlate with their marital status – divorced men experience poor social wellbeing and health issues far more often than married men, with a consequence being a reduced working capacity as a result of human capital degradation.