Social patterning of ill health in Helsinki and Moscow. Results from a comparative survey in 1991

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1121-1136

  Palosuo, Hannele ^a   Uutela, Antti ^b   Zhuravleva, Irina ^c   Lakomova, Nina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Finland; Inequality; Russia; Sex differences; Stratification

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH STATUS; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN POPULATION;

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FINLAND; HEALTH; HUMAN; INCOME; OCCUPATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INCOME; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOSCOW; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS;

FINLAND, HELSINKI; RUSSIAN FEDERATION, MOSCOW;

EID: 0032079983     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)10043-0     Document Type: Article

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