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

"Life expectancy in countries of Central and Eastern Europe is substantially shorter than in Western Europe, and a similar divide exists in self-rated health. This exhaustive study of populations in seven Central and European countries - Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary - examines the social and psychosocial determinants of this divide. Practitioners and graduate students of public health and social psychology will find this an invaluable resource"--Font no determinada Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction....Pages 1-6 Background....Pages 7-34 Populations and Methods....Pages 35-54 Results....Pages 55-145 Discussion....Pages 147-176 Conclusions....Pages 177-178 Back Matter....Pages 179-213