Health-related lifestyles and alienation in Moscow and Helsinki

Palosuo, Hannele

doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(00)00095-2

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“…Nonetheless, the results are in accordance with previous studies showing that poor nutrition and material deprivation are common in Eastern European countries, especially in Russia, 36,37 and strongly suggest that the weight loss in those countries was unintentional and associated with widespread material deprivation. However, it is noteworthy that mean BMI in Eastern European countries was much higher than in Western Europe during the initial survey and still remained higher at the final survey in spite of the diverging temporal trends.…”

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Trends in obesity and energy supply in the WHO MONICA Project

Silventoinen

Sans²,

Tolonen³

et al. 2004

Int J Obes

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OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between secular trends in energy supply and body mass index (BMI) among several countries. DESIGN: Aggregate level analyses of annually reported country food data against anthropometric data collected in independent cross-sectional samples from 34 populations in 21 countries from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. SUBJECTS: Population randomly selected participants aged 35-64 y. MEASUREMENTS: BMI data were obtained from the WHO MONICA Project. Food energy supply data were derived from the Food Balance Sheet of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. RESULTS: Mean BMI as well as the prevalence of overweight (BMI Z25 kg/m 2 ) increased in virtually all Western European countries, Australia, the USA, and China. Decreasing trends in BMI were seen in Central and Eastern European countries. Increasing trends in total energy supply per capita were found in most high-income countries and China while decreasing trends existed in Eastern European countries. Between country differences in temporal trends of total energy supply per capita explained 41% of the variation of trends in mean BMI; the effect was similar upon the prevalence of overweight and obesity. Trends in percent of energy supply from total fat per capita had a slight effect on the trends in mean BMI ( þ 7% increment in R 2 ) when the total energy supply per capita was adjusted for, while energy supply from total sweeteners per capita had no additional effect. CONCLUSION: Increasing energy supply is closely associated with the increase of overweight and obesity in western countries. This emphasizes the importance of dietary issues when coping with the obesity epidemic.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Trends in obesity and energy supply in the WHO MONICA Project

Silventoinen

Sans²,

Tolonen³

et al. 2004

Int J Obes

226

151

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“…Earlier studies have mentioned chronic psychosocial stress caused by the socioeconomic changes after the fall of communism as a probable cause of deteriorating health situation in Russia and other East European countries (Palosuo 2000a;Gilmore et al 2002;Pikhart et al 2004). Carlson (2004) found that the economic situation had a strong effect on people's self-rated health, and people in countries of the former Soviet Union tend to be worse off than in Western Europe in terms of their financial situation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Comparison of self-rated health in older people of St. Petersburg, Russia, and Tampere, Finland: how sensitive is SRH to cross-cultural factors?

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The aim of this study was to examine if there are differences in self-rated health (SRH) between older people in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Tampere, Finland. Two SRH measures were examined: a global measure without any frame of reference, and an age-comparative SRH with an explicitly elicited reference of age peers. The Tampere data, consisting of 737 60-89-year-old respondents, came from the Tampere Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TamELSA) in 1989. The St. Petersburg data, consisting of 1,168 people aged 60-89 years, came from the Planning of Medical and Social Services within Elder Care in St. Petersburg project (IPSE) in 2000. In both cities the data were collected by same structured questionnaire. Self-rated health, both global and comparative, was better in Tampere than in St. Petersburg when symptoms, chronic diseases and functional ability were adjusted for. Also, the association of chronic diseases with global SRH was different in St. Petersburg and Tampere. In addition to the real differences in the prevalence and seriousness of health problems, the differences in SRH may be caused by different ways of evaluating health. Our conclusion is that self-rated health is sensitive to cultural and social factors. Direct comparisons between different countries should be made with caution, and the differences in language use must be taken into account when interpreting the results.

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“…An adverse psychosocial environment constraining innovation, creativity, and life satisfaction may also have promoted feelings of apathy, alienation, and low sense of control contributing to a disregard for individual health promotion (Bobak et al 1998(Bobak et al , 2000Palosuo 2000;Shkolnikov and Malkov 2000). When gender differences are considered, for example, men may have suffered greater apathy than women because of low rewards in the socialist workplace that affected them more (Siegrist 1996(Siegrist , 2000.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Research from the Czech Republic shows that the stress of men and women workers was about the same during the economic transition in that country (Hraba et al 1996). Ultimately, the principal difference between the sexes comes down to a more negative health lifestyle for adult males: men excessively drink alcohol and smoke more than women, while women eat a healthier diet (Carlson and Vågerö 1998;Cockerham 1999Cockerham , 2000aHurt 1995;Lopez 1998;Palosuo 2000;Palosuo et al 1998;Ryan 1995;Shapiro 1995;Shkolnikov and Nemtsov 1997).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The health lifestyle literature on Russia specifically describes an entrenched pattern of excessive alcohol consumption, heavy smoking, high fat diet, and lack of health-promoting exercise (Cockerham 1999(Cockerham , 2000aPalosuo 2000;Palosuo et al 1998). These lifestyle practices are especially characteristic of middle-age, working-class males, whose high mortality rates from heart disease, alcohol poisoning, and alcohol-related accidents are largely responsible for the decline in male longevity (Carlson and Vägerö 1998;Chenet et al 1998;Cockerham 1999Cockerham , 2000aNotzon et al 1998).…”

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