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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.

Mohou rozdíly v laickém chápání zdraví vysvětlit rozdíly v subjektivním zdravotním stavu mezi statusovými skupinami?

Urheber*in: Kreidl, Martin

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Alternative title
Can Status Differences in Lay Knowledge about Health Explain Status Differences in Subjective Health?
Extent
Seite(n): 55-86
Language
Tschechisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Bibliographic citation
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 44(1)

Subject
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Soziologie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Kreidl, Martin
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2008

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-58861
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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  • Kreidl, Martin

Time of origin

  • 2008

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