Social and psychosocial determinants of self-rated health in central and eastern Europe
By: by Hynek Pikhart.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Public health -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern.; Public health -- Social aspects -- Europe.; Self-care, Health -- Europe, Eastern.; Self-care, Health -- Europe.; Public health -- Psychological aspects -- Europe, Eastern.; Public health -- Psychological aspects -- Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-189) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION I; title: 1. EAST-WEST DIFFERENCE 1; title: 2. MAIN INTEREST AND HYPOTHESES 3; title: 3. STUDY DESIGN AND DATA 4; title: 4. CONTRIBUTORS TO THE PROJECT 5; title: 5. STRUCTURE; title: 6; title: BACKGROUND 7; title: 1. HEALTH STATUS IN COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL AND; title: EASTERN EUROPE 7; title: 2. SELF-RATED HEALTH 8; title: 2.1 Self-rated health as a predictor of mortality 8; title: 2.2 Self-rated health in Central and Eastern Europe 12; title: 3. SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS 14; title: 3.1 Socioeconomic factors at individual level 14; title: 3.2 Socioeconomic factors in Central and Eastern Europe 16; title: 3.3 Socioeconomic factors at aggregated level 17; title: 4. PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS 18; title: 4.1 Work related factors 19; title: 4.2 Perceived control over own life and health 28; title: 4.3 Social support and social networks 31; title: POPULATIONS AND METHODS 35; title: 1. POPULATIONS 35; title: 1.1 National samples 37; title: 1.2 Community samples 38; title: 2. DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA 44; title: 2.1 Socioeconomic status 45; title: 2.2 Psychosocial factors not related to work 46; title: 2.3 Work-related psychosocial factors 48; title: 2.4 Life-style risk factors 49; title: 3. STATISTICAL POWER OF THE STUDY 50; title: 4. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 52; title: 4.1 Strategy of analysis 52; title: 4.2 Restrictions of analysis 53; title: 4.3 Missing values 54; title: 4.4 Software; title: 54; title: RESULTS 55; title: 1. DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF STUDY SUBJECTS; title: AND POPULATIONS 56; title: 1.1 Countries 56; title: 1.2 Study subjects 57; title: 1.3 National samples 58; title: 1.4 Community samples 61; title: 2. SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS AND MARITAL; title: STATUS 64; title: 2.1 The role of socioeconomic variables in national samples 64; title: 2.2 The role of socioeconomic variables in five community samples; title: 80; title: 3. PERCEIVED CONTROL AND OTHER PSYCHO-SOCIAL; title: FACTORS NOT RELATED TO WORK 90; title: 3.1 The role of perceived control and other psychosocial factors not; title: related to work in seven national samples 90; title: 3.2 The role of perceived control in five community samples 103; title: 4. MEASURES OF SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY AT THE; title: POPULATION LEVEL 110; title: 5. WORK RELATED PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS 117; title: 5.1 Work-related psychosocial factors in national samples 118; title: 5.2 Work-related psychosocial factors in community samples 120; title: 6. ANALYSES USING OTHER ENDPOINTS 139; title: 6.1 Physical functioning 139; title: 6.2 Other definition of self-rated health 141; title: 6.3 Self-reported history of cardiovascular disease 143; title: DISCUSSION 147; title: 1. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES 148; title: 1.1 Representativeness of the sample 148; title: 1.2 Limitations of the cross-sectional character of the study 150; title: 1.3 Random error 151; title: 1.4 Misclassification 151; title: 1.5 Confounding 153; title: 1.6 Relevance of statistical techniques used in the analysis 153; title: 2. CONSISTENCY OF THE RESULTS WITH OTHER STUDIES 157; title: 2.1 Prevalence of self-rated health 157; title: 2.2 Life-style risk factors 157; title: 2.3 Socioeconomic factors on individual level 159; title: 2.4 Psychosocial factors not related to work 165; title: 2.5 Inequalities measured at the aggregated level 167; title: 2.6 Psychosocial factors related to work 171; title: 3. DOES THIS RESEARCH HELP TO UNDERSTAND THE; title: HEALTH CRISIS IN CCEE? 173; title: CONCLUSIONS 177.