Social and Psychosocial Determinants of Self-Rated Health in Central and Eastern Europe

International comparators and poverty and health in Europe

“…Figure 5 shows mean levels of control for seven population samples plotted against all cause mortality for the countries from which these population samples were drawn. These are “ecological” group levels of control predicting population rates of disease 27. Carlson obtained similar results for a larger number of countries 33…”

“…In a study by Pikhart in Hungary of the factors responsible for high levels of self reported poor health, we asked people to report on household items that they possessed 27. The relation of household items to poor health is shown in the table.…”

Health in an unequal world: social circumstances, biology and disease

“…In an ecological study, in seven Central and Eastern European countries, we showed that mean rates of control of a population sample were related to mortality rates of the country from which the sample was drawn. 72 'Contamination' of subjectively reported measures is not an issue in this ecological study.…”

Using Open-Ended Data to Enrich Survey Results on the Meanings of Self-Rated Health: A Study Among Women in Underprivileged Communities in Beirut, Lebanon

“…Whereas studies have consistently shown that women report poorer health status compared to men (Pinkhart, 2002), little is known about the gendered dimensions of SRH (Mellner & Lundberg, 2003;Shadbolt, 1997); the meaning of perceived good or poor health among women in diverse contexts remains poorly understood. Using survey and open-ended databoth collected in the same study-multivariate analysis was first used to test a comprehensive model that included a large number of variables idenDownloaded by [University of Regina] at 17:38 17 November 2014 tified in previous research to be related to SRH.…”