Social and Psychosocial Determinants of Self-Rated Health in Central and Eastern Europe

By: Hynek Pikhart

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Hardcover | 30 November 2001

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Life expectancy in countries of Central and Eastern Europe is substantially shorter than in Western Europe, and a similar divide exists in self-rated health.
This exhaustive study of populations in seven Central and European countries - Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary - examines the social and psychosocial determinants of this divide. Practitioners and graduate students of public health and social psychology will find this an invaluable resource.

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List of Tables	p. xi
List of Figures	p. xv
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
Acknowledgment	p. xix
	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
East-West Difference	p. 1
Main Interest and Hypo Theses	p. 3
Study Design and Data	p. 4
Contributors to the Project	p. 5
Structure	p. 6
	p. 7
Background	p. 7
Health Status in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe	p. 7
Self-Rated Health	p. 8
Self-rated health as a predictor of mortality	p. 8
Self-rated health in Central and Eastern Europe	p. 12
Socioeconomic Factors	p. 14
Socioeconomic factors at individual level	p. 14
Socioeconomic factors in Central and Eastern Europe	p. 16
Socioeconomic factors at aggregated level	p. 17
Psychosocial Factors	p. 18
Work related factors	p. 19
Perceived control over own life and health	p. 28
Social support and social networks	p. 31
	p. 35
Populations and Methods	p. 35
Populations	p. 35
National samples	p. 37
Community samples	p. 38
Description of the Data	p. 44
Socioeconomic status	p. 45
Psychosocial factors not related to work	p. 46
Work-related psychosocial factors	p. 48
Life-style risk factors	p. 49
Statistical Power of the Study	p. 50
Statistical Analysis	p. 52
Strategy of analysis	p. 52
Restrictions of analysis	p. 53
Missing values	p. 54
Software	p. 54
	p. 55
Results	p. 55
Descriptive Characteristics of Study Subjects and Populations	p. 56
Countries	p. 56
Study subjects	p. 57
National samples	p. 58
Community samples	p. 61
Socioeconomic Characteristics and Marital Status	p. 64
The role of socioeconomic variables in national samples	p. 64
The role of socioeconomic variables in five community samples	p. 80
Perceived Control and Other Psycho-Social Factors not Related to Work	p. 90
The role of perceived control and other psychosocial factors not related to work in seven national samples	p. 90
The role of perceived control in five community samples	p. 103
Measures of Socioeconomic Inequality at the Population Level	p. 110
Work Related Psychosocial Factors	p. 117
Work-related psychosocial factors in national samples	p. 118
Work-related psychosocial factors in community samples	p. 120
Analyses using Other Endpoints	p. 139
Physical functioning	p. 139
Other definition of self-rated health	p. 141
Self-reported history of cardiovascular disease	p. 143
	p. 147
Discussion	p. 147
Methodological Issues	p. 148
Representativeness of the sample	p. 148
Limitations of the cross-sectional character of the study	p. 150
Random error	p. 151
Misclassification	p. 151
Confounding	p. 153
Relevance of statistical techniques used in the analysis	p. 153
Consistency of the Results With Other Studies	p. 157
Prevalence of self-rated health	p. 157
Life-style risk factors	p. 157
Socioeconomic factors on individual level	p. 159
Psychosocial factors not related to work	p. 165
Inequalities measured at the aggregated level	p. 167
Psychosocial factors related to work	p. 171
Does This Research Help to Understand the Health Crisis in Ccee?	p. 173
	p. 177
Conclusions	p. 177
References	p. 179
Appendix 1	p. 191
Chewe Questionnaire	p. 191
Appendix 2	p. 201
Physical Functioning	p. 201
Appendix 3	p. 203
Coding of Work Characteristics	p. 203
Index	p. 207
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