OBJECTIVES: The main aim of the article is to indicate how selected socioeconomic factors contribute to the selected characteristics of the subjectively perceived health of seniors 65+ living in the Czech Republic. METHODS: Data collection took place in the Czech Republic from 27 January 2020 to 14 February 2020. The total number of interviews carried out in the research was 1,172, from a representative quota sample of seniors from the senior population living in the Czech Republic. Questionnaires were distributed in the form of PAPI interviews. RESULTS: The assessment of subjective social status increases with education and employment (these three aspects are closely linked), and the assessment transferred to the senior years. CONCLUSION: The accumulation of advantages and disadvantages should encourage the Government of the Czech Republic, as well as other European states, to focus on those who, based on their low levels of education and social status, have very low assessments of their subjective health. Prevention (in both health and social fields), which includes access to information and the subsequent better life decisions, must be implemented throughout a person's lifetime (so as to reduce the disadvantages that accumulate from the cradle to the grave).

Department of Public Health and Hygiene Faculty of Medicine Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice Kosice Slovak Republic

Faculty of Health and Social Sciences University of South Bohemia Ceske Budejovice Czech Republic

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