Modelling uncertainty in the connection between socio-economic factors and health & health-related behavior of adolescents in Georgia

This paper represents the results of investigation establishing a connection of socio-economic factors and adolescents' health in Georgia. Health indicators are extracted from the special anonymous survey on adolescents in Georgia. The socio-economic factors are evaluated by independent experts. Methods based on elements of statistical analysis as well as on similarity relations from fuzzy set theory are applied to obtain connectivity between health indicators and socio-economic factors. The results show not only pairwise connection between both types of evidences but the group influence as well.