IMPORTANT INDICATORS OF THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN TODAY'S GLOBALIZED ENVIRONMENT

The paper deals with the issue of quality of life in global context. In the context of determining the level of objective quality of life, indicators of economics, security, health, education are applied. The quality of life in the municipalities has many components, as life standard reflected by amount of income, safe housing, and availability of water, goods, services or health care. These indicators are quite good measurable. Subjective aspect of quality of the life, assessment of the satisfaction of individual areas and aspects of well-being, including the assessment of income and other indicators, such as the quality of environment, education, health services, or feeling of safety can be measured more complicated. The security of citizens and their property is also one of the key indicators of life quality. It can be characterized through subjective perception or objective statistical indicators. The contribution focuses on the primary research on the quality of life in selected cities und municipalities in European Union. This reflects at what level is human perception of safety and other indicators and how much is this limited by the external factors. In the contribution are presented the results of the primary survey about the perception from citizens' point of view, implemented in the selected cities and municipalities from European Union. In the paper, the comparisons are mentioned to highlight how globalization affects the feeling of safety in the cities and their surroundings.