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Considered either a determiner of personal life quality, or a determinant of the latter, the population's health state and health state self-perception is studied nowadays by numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations, in order to “agree” upon what really influences our health state. The study's objectives followed in what measure the person's health state (presence or absence of disease) is correlated to his/her perception regarding own health state (in other words, if we have a good health stat...

Fostering local identity is seen as a way of differentiating between communities, which, in the context of an ever increasing globalization, tend to become more and more similar. Elements like landscape and popular culture still contribute to keeping and shaping a distinct local identity. Identifying the role played by local identity in the development of a community has a large economic, social and ecological importance. The presence of certain practices, traditions, customs and other events (promotion of traditi...