Health Lifestyles in Russia and the Socialist Heritage

Cockerham, William C.; Snead, Margaret C.; Dewaal, Derek F.

doi:10.2307/3090244

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“…There is increasing evidence of large gender differences in drinking behavior among Russians. Males in Russia are less often nondrinkers [9,13,18], have higher levels of alcohol intake per occasion [9,13,19] and are more likely to engage in binge drinking [12,13] compared to their female counterparts. Alcohol-related problems in life are common among men [12].…”

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Gender Differences in Alcohol Choice among Russians: Evidence from a Quantitative Study

Minagawa¹

2012

Eur Addict Res

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Aims: Qualitative studies find that men and women in Russia have different preferences for alcoholic beverages, but quantitative evidence for gender differences in beverage type choice remains scarce. The purpose of this article is to test numerically whether and to what extent men and women in Russia differ in terms of preferences for type of drink, such as vodka, wine and beer. Methods: Results are based on multinomial logistic regression and ordinary least squares regression analyses of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey-Higher School of Economics 2008 data. Results: We observed significant gender differences in preferences for alcoholic beverages. Men have strong preferences for vodka, and they drink it in much larger amounts in comparison with women. Women are more likely to either refrain from drinking or drink mild types of alcoholic beverages, such as wine and beer. Gender differences remain statistically significant even when sociodemographic factors are well accounted for. Conclusions: The present study confirms the previous research findings about gender differences in drinking practices among Russians. Our results provide quantitative evidence of the pronounced differences in beverage types consumed by men and women.

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Gender Differences in Alcohol Choice among Russians: Evidence from a Quantitative Study

Minagawa¹

2012

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“…Increased advertising of imported foods, cigarettes, and alcohol have contributed to a growth in consumption of Western style goods. The lifestyles literature on Russia discusses the pattern of excessive alcohol consumption, heavy smoking, high fat diet and lack of physical exercise-characteristics of middle-age working males (Cockerham 2000(Cockerham , 2002Palosuo 2000). In 1994, Russia had the highest per capita pure alcohol consumption in the world, 14.5 liters per year, and the adult males that comprised 25% of the population consumed 90% of the alcohol (Cockerham 2002).…”

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“…The lifestyles literature on Russia discusses the pattern of excessive alcohol consumption, heavy smoking, high fat diet and lack of physical exercise-characteristics of middle-age working males (Cockerham 2000(Cockerham , 2002Palosuo 2000). In 1994, Russia had the highest per capita pure alcohol consumption in the world, 14.5 liters per year, and the adult males that comprised 25% of the population consumed 90% of the alcohol (Cockerham 2002). Bobrova et al (2010) investigate the gender differences in drinking patterns in Russia and conclude that women drink less often and much smaller quantities than of men.…”

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BMI Changes in Russian Adults: The Role of Health Related Behaviors and Spousal Relationships

Huffman

2014

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The paper investigates the effects of changes in marital status and health related behaviors (smoking and drinking) on the body mass index (BMI) in Russian adults over a ten-year period. Smoking and drinking behavior changes have played an important part in health status changes over 1994 to 2004. The results indicate that the individual weight/BMI changes asymmetrically in health determinants; the sign and the magnitude of the response are different depending on the starting point and whether there is an increase or a decrease in the explanatory variable. Males' BMI decreases with smoking and increases with quitting smoking, but females' BMI increases with drinking alcohol and decreases with stopping drinking. Losing a partner decreases only the females' BMI, but gaining a spouse/partner is associated with increases in BMI for both genders. For married females and males, the change in spousal BMI is significantly positively related. Understanding interactions between individual health-related behaviors and the set of determinants that contribute to such behaviors is a fundamental step in the design of effective interventions. Abstract:The paper investigates the effects of changes in marital status and health related

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“…Such studies involve many countries around the world with no particular focus on transitional countries. Also, Cockerham et al [17] and Cockerham et al [18] in two related studies examine the effect of political ideology (pro-or anti-communism) on healthy life styles and individual self-rated heath in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.…”

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Post-Communist Health Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe

Safaei

2012

Economics Research International

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The countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have gone through immense political and socioeconomic restructuring after the collapse of communism around 1990. Such transition has affected the lives of populations in these countries in many significant respects. A key aspect of life and wellbeing in any society is that of population health. This paper traces the transitions in population health-life expectancies and mortality rates for both males and females-in seven of the CEE countries during the two decades after the fall of communism. We estimate a series of panel data models to identify some of the common factors that would explain health transitions in these countries, while allowing for country-specific variability. Our findings indicate that the health transitions are strongly country specific. Moreover, income per capita and trade openness are statistically significant common contributors to health transitions. IntroductionTwo decades have passed since the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) like countries in the former Soviet Union went through immense political and socioeconomic restructuring that began around 1990 with the collapse of communism. Since then, they have embarked on a transition from closed, totalitarian, and centrally planned economies towards open, democratic, and market-based economies. Such transition has affected the lives of populations in these countries in many significant respects. Many people in these countries have had renewed hopes for improved living conditions and great expectations for a free and prosperous future comparable to those enjoyed by many in Western and Northern Europe for many years.It is understood that the transition from communism to democratic capitalism has provided natural experiments that allow one to examine the evolution of socioeconomic wellbeing of people in the CEE countries as they restructure their socioeconomic and political institutions away from those of the past to those modeled after Western European institutions. A key aspect of wellbeing in any society is that of population health. So, it is important to examine the evolution of health outcomes in those countries as a result of such historical restructuring over the past two decades. This examination is embedded in the social determinants of health paradigm that views socioeconomic and political structures as the upstream determinants of population health [1][2][3][4].Across the CEE countries, transition has had an immediate and largely adverse impact on health as noted by McKee [5]. Such impact has been mostly related to increased deaths due to road accidents and violence which has happened in disrespect of order and state control by Leichter [6] and Winston et al. [7] among others. Subsequently, mortality rates have fallen and life expectancies improved in these countries, albeit to various degrees.In spite of improvements in health in these transitional countries, their health attainments fall significantly short of those in the Western and Northern Europe. Researchers hav...

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Health Lifestyles in Russia and the Socialist Heritage

Cited by 85 publications

References 46 publications

Gender Differences in Alcohol Choice among Russians: Evidence from a Quantitative Study

Gender Differences in Alcohol Choice among Russians: Evidence from a Quantitative Study

BMI Changes in Russian Adults: The Role of Health Related Behaviors and Spousal Relationships

Post-Communist Health Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe

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