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

by Hynek Pikhart

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461352649
• ISBN13: 9781461352648
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"