Socioeconomic factors, material inequalities, and perceived control in self-rated health: Cross-sectional data from seven post-communist countries

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1343-1350

  Bobak, Martin ^a   Pikhart, Hynek ^a   Rose, Richard ^b   Hertzman, Clyde ^c   Marmot, Michael ^a  

^a Intl Centre for Health and Society   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eastern Europe; Inequality; Perceived control; Psychosocial factors; Self rated health; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; POST-COMMUNISM; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EASTERN EUROPE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CZECH REPUBLIC; EDUCATION; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HUNGARY; INCOME; INTERVIEWS; LATVIA; LITHUANIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLAND; POVERTY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RUSSIA; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0034335386     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(00)00096-4     Document Type: Article

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