THE INFLUENCE OF ECONOMIC FACTORS (DETERMINANTS) ON SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS OF THE LEVEL OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OF THE WORKING-AGE POPULATION

Despite the importance of physical activity indicators and their decisive influence on public health indicators, no studies have been conducted on the impact of health determinants, including economic ones, on physical activity indicators. The purpose of the study is to analyze the fact and degree of influence of economic factors as a component of lifestyle on physical activity indicators. Materials and methods of research. The individual economic characteristics of patients were considered as the object of the study. Since the normality of the distribution for quantitative features, as a rule, was not observed, a nonparametric criterion was used to assess the differences 2 and the nonparametric analogue of the correlation coefficient is the association coefficient. Approaches to the identification and measurement of the economic determinant of public health were described in detail earlier [24, 25]. The size of the real random sample was 1400 respondents. The average age of respondents of working age in the general sample was 39.7 years. As criteria of physical activity, subjective characteristics of physical activity given by the respondents themselves, the fact of performing physical exercises, and attitude to active recreation were used. Results. The use of complex (composite) features characterizing a person's financial situation and economic well-being makes it possible to identify differences in behavioral patterns regarding subjective perceptions of the level of physical activity among the working-age population. The influence of economic factors (determinants) is manifested in a decrease in the level of physical activity and a greater proportion of those who have low and very low levels of physical activity according to their own ideas, a more frequent negative attitude towards physical exercise among respondents with a low level of material security. However, the subjective attitude towards active recreation was positive for the majority of respondents, regardless of their level of material well-being.