Health and human capital: on the issue of social well-being of population

Abstract

The article presents analysis of modern concepts concerning value of health from point of view of human capital and from positions of competitiveness. It is noted that health capital comes out as investment project for human capital. The multiple-aspects of health conditions, dynamics of alterations of these conditions in many ways depend on internal stimulating motives of individual, life conditions, specifics of social environment, life situation. From this point of view, health is a socially conditioned occurrence playing dialectic role in relationships of human with society, with others and with oneself.