Definition of Social Welfare
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Aug. 2009
In general terms, the word well-being allows designates that state that an individual goes through and that is characterized by satisfaction and happiness.
It is also common for the concept of well-being to be used to refer to the comfortable and comfortable economic situation that you have a person and that by case allows you to stay without problems and also for example make trips, purchases of goods, among others.
Now, in this sense it is important to emphasize that in the perception subjectivity will have a lot to do with well-being, that is, we do not all have the same tastes and inclinations and therefore what someone reports well-being to another may not mean the same.
Social Welfare refers to the set of factors or elements that participate in determining the quality of life of a person and that ultimately Accounts are also those that will allow her to enjoy and maintain a quiet existence, without deprivation and with a constant state of satisfaction over time..
These factors include, and will affect in much the same way, economic, social and cultural aspects. Although it is true that what is understood by well-being has an important subjective charge that each individual will print on it with their own and unique experience of it, because it is clear, what for one it is well-being for another it may not be, there are objective factors to determine it and that are what will allow us to speak and distinguish when there is or is not a situation of wellness.
So, basically, the conception of social welfare includes all those things that have a positive impact so that a subject, a family, a community, can achieve the goal of having a good quality of life.
A decent job, in which the perception of a salary according to the job is respected, training and effort that is carried out, plus the well-deserved rest period that corresponds to each one for law and for the task he performs, economic resources to be able to satisfy basic needs how to be from education, housing, health, leisure time and entertainment, are the main questions that will tell us about the well-being or not in which a person lives, a society.
There are several ways to measure well-being, from a strictly economic point of view, because without a doubt beyond any kind of consideration, for or against, it is what It will allow us to approach the achievement of a global welfare situation in which all other aspects are included, social, cultural, among others, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a Nation will be the one that associated with the level of distribution of wealth to which said society has reached, will tell us whether or not there is well-being, because a High GDP with a real distribution in terms of wealth, will cause well-being to be extended in society, but if on the contrary, the GDP is not significant and the concentration of wealth in a few is what commands, then, we cannot speak of well-being in society in question.
Likewise, the price indices, the basic baskets, well measured, of course, not the drawings that many governments make to favor their efforts and the unemployment rate of a nation, allow us to know the well-being or not that exists in a society. Because, for example, if in a certain country, official statistics tell us that a typical family (married couple and two children) can live on $ 2,000 per month, it will allow us to know How many families have welfare and how many do not, because easily those who do not have that value in their pocket each month will not have the aforementioned welfare, touching the lack.
But also and already going beyond the strictly economic, there are other ways to determine the well-being of a community: life expectancy at birth, literacy rate, number of books published per year, number of people who can access the University, the availability of some consumer goods considered not within the needs basic, how to be a computer, one telephone mobile, among others.
Meanwhile, the maximum person in charge that will have in its hands that a society achieves the long-awaited well-being is the state, which, through various policies and measures aimed at correcting the vices and inequities that arise, promote well-being for each of the inhabitants of the nation and therefore, in addition, will have the demand of himself to be able to generate and multiply riches.
Efficiently distribute income and promote the development of public services that guarantee people the resolution of basic topics such as health and for free, of course they will contribute widely to implement a context of well-being Social.