| Summary: | The article discusses socio-economic aspects of heart diseases. In dealing with cardiovascular diseases, it is especially important to bear in mind that human development takes place in the course of human activity and so is dependent upon the concrete historical conditions of human life, i.e. the material and social relations in which human beings mature. This is more than saying that an individual with certain hereditary characteristics is affected by conditions of his environment. The person and his social environment are in fact indivisible. The individual does not end with his skin, but his existence and his development are part of a process of continuous, active relationship with his social and cultural situation. In this sense persons, sick or well, are not merely organisms fulfilling their life cycles. They are also socially defined by the role given them by the society in which they are participants, by the work they do, by the sanctions and restraints by which each society regulates their conduct.
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