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Mohou rozdíly v laickém chápání zdraví vysvětlit rozdíly v subjektivním zdravotním stavu mezi statusovými skupinami?
The author reviews the theory of socio-economic inequality in health & concludes that the use of cultural values to explain the ubiquitous association between the socio-economic standing (SES) of individuals & their health is becoming increasingly prominent. Inspired by this, the author examines whether & to what extent several aspects of lay knowledge about & attitudes towards health can explain the social gradient in subjective health in Central & Eastern Europe. The author uses data from the second round of the European Social Survey & limits the analysis to data from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, & Slovenia. The data show that while there is a strong relationship between education & subjective health & also a relationship between education & various measures of lay knowledge about health, beliefs about health are only very weakly related to subjective health & thus fail to account for its dependence on SES. The author concludes that this may be the result of reciprocal causation between lay knowledge & subjective health. More enhanced research designs would be required in order to gain a better empirical evaluation of the causal relationships between SES, lay knowledge, & health.
- Alternative title
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Can Status Differences in Lay Knowledge about Health Explain Status Differences in Subjective Health?
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Seite(n): 55-86
- Language
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Tschechisch
- Notes
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
- Bibliographic citation
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Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 44(1)
- Subject
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Soziologie, Anthropologie
Soziologie
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Kreidl, Martin
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Veröffentlichung
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2008
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-58861
- Rights
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
- Last update
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21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST
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- Zeitschriftenartikel
Associated
- Kreidl, Martin
Time of origin
- 2008