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Risk behaviours and self rated health in Russia 1998
P Carlson
Centre for Health
Equity Studies, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Correspondence to: Dr Carlson (per.carlson{at}chess.su.se)
Accepted for publication 17 May 2001
OBJECTIVES
As self
rated health and mortality represent different dimensions of public
health and as risk behaviours have been closely related to mortality,
we wanted to examine whether (poor) self rated health on the one hand
and risk behaviours on the other can be attributed to different causes.
METHODSThe Taganrog
household survey (1998) was conducted in the form of face to face
interviews and included 1009 people and their families. To estimate
health differences and differences in risk behaviours between groups,
logistic regressions were performed.
RESULTSIn Taganrog
between 1993/94 and 1998, changes in self rated health seem to have
been much more dramatic than changes in smoking and different in
direction from changes in heavy alcohol consumption. Moreover, self
rated "poor" health was especially common among those whose
economic situation was worse in 1998 than 10 years before. However,
having a poorer economy during the period 1988-1998, does not seem to
have affected drinking or smoking habits significantly.
CONCLUSIONSSelf rated
health seems to be closely related to three indicators of economic
circumstances. Risk behaviours are probably important for the poor
state of public health in Russia, but may be less sensitive to the
economic aspects of the transition than is self rated health.
Keywords: self rated health; risk behaviours
© 2001 by Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
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