Lifestyle and living conditions

Living conditions and lifestyle must also be taken into account as they are strongly influenced by other areas of life. For example, in a 2012 joint report by Joint Communications, social inclusion was identified as having an impact on education and training, health and well-being, and employment and industrialization. In fact, this can be confirmed in the highlights of the 2012 joint report on social exclusion, which ranged from “unemployment or low-quality employment to access to education and training, health care, and access limited to activities”.

History

It is not surprising lifestyle, therefore, that between 2010 and 2012, “a majority of Member States reported a national strategy or intersectoral plan targeting youth” and “established new intersectoral partnerships and joint development projects and initiatives” . The youth sector must be supported” (Joint Communications, 2012).

In conclusion

although these dimensions are interrelated in practical and decision-making processes, the mechanisms and data behind each dimension are quite different. While living conditions may refer to both subjective and objective concepts of quality of life, broader societal issues such as social structures, social inequalities within and between countries, and the ongoing question of how to effectively design and implement measures in such cases. European Policy; Lifestyle mainly refers to the concept of well-being and a healthy lifestyle, which in turn includes many subjective (perception and self-assessment) and objective indicators as we will see later in this article. . For this reason it is not possible to present the context of European policy and the results related to lifestyles and living conditions as a coherent theme. Accordingly, these dimensions will be grouped into three sections under the following headings: Family and Residential Transitions, Leisure Time, and Health and Wellbeing.

Family and Housing Transitions and lifestyle

Leaving a parent’s home,  a partner, having a child: these are all important demographic events and important social markers in a lifetime. The transition to adulthood is a “population intensive period of multiple changes” (Rindfuss, 1991), although it is recognized that this period is prolonged in time and that some features of adolescence are more Youthful features. Or avoiding this delay, is not just a cultural issue lifestyle but the result of enormous social changes and differences in European societies lifestyle, some of which are clearly positive, such as the widening of school rhythms, and others which clearly contribute to the dynamics of social inequality. Entrance. Integration with the labor market, lack of available and affordable housing, and lack of family-friendly programs and incentives.

Some demographers have questioned the emerging “new demographics” in Europe, characterized by delayed first parental leave as life expectancy increases and fertility patterns decrease (Waupel, 2000 and Köhler, 2000, Quoted from Ballari, 2004: 16). This happens not only because of longer educational trajectories or social and cultural norms in each country, but also as a side effect of temporarily preventing poverty. As stated in the 2012 joint report:1

“The risk of becoming poor is strongly correlated with how long parents have been away from home. In fact, some studies have shown that parental departure is ‘the strongest predictor of youth poverty.'”

The second demographic transition characterizes some of these phenomena, made possible by scientific and technological changes, but perhaps most importantly cultural, social and value changes across Europe. The recent economic situation may lead us to ask ourselves whether the third demographic transition is more rewarding and less voluntary (due to high youth unemployment, especially in some countries), high rates of mobility and immigration, and factors such as growing Family formation and fertility rates have declined. This is from a counterintuitive standpoint that incentives and new policies to protect maternity and paternity rights are urgently needed, as well as schemes through rent or loan incentives, f