Coping with stress and by stress: Russian men and women talking about transition, stress and health

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 327-338

  Pietilä, Ilkka ^a   Rytkönen, Marja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Gender; Health; Qualitative research; Russia; Stress; Transition

Indexed keywords

GENDER; MENS HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL CHANGE; WOMENS HEALTH;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUSSIA; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 36849066193     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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