| Titre : | Women's health status in Poland in the transition to a market economy. (2002) |
| Auteurs : | Wiktoria WROBLEWSKA ; Social and economic patterning of women's health in a changing world. International seminar. (2000/01; Tunis. TUN) |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 54, n° 5, 2002) |
| Pagination : | 707-726 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Homme ; Femme ; Etat santé ; Pologne ; Europe ; Economie marché ; Facteur socioéconomique ; Changement ; Epidémiologie ; Sexe ; Réforme |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 5uR0x65t. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Since 1989 Poland has been experiencing large-scale social and economic changes as a result of the reforms associated with the transition to a market economy, This study uses a 1996 Health Survey of over 20,000 women to examine the impact of the new socio-economic situation and of women's multiple roles on their health at the early stage of transition. We investigated the importance of selected economic, socio-demographic and cultural determinants in explaining differences in women's health status in Poland, focusing on education level, (un) employment, living conditions, marital status, smoking and life style. There are health inequalities between men and women in Poland based on life expectancy, chronic diseases and health self-assessment. Some of these, especially the large differences between life expectancy at working ages, may be attributed to the difficult socio-economic situation. The multivariate analysis of women's self-assessed health and morbidity from selected chronic diseases indicated substantial inequalities in health Together with the behavioural and cultural risk factors recognized by medicine, such as obesity, lack of physical exercise and smoking, the paper shows the crucial role of economic factors in influencing Polish women's health. Women whose financial position is poor are more likely to assess their health as less than good, to suffer from respiratory and circulatory systems'diseases and report neurotic problems. Other factors, strongly connected with the transition process in Poland, which contribute to health problems are lack of employment and low educational level particularly for younger women. Women's marital and parental status are also important predictors of some categories of health problems ; however, their influence varies for women of different ages. (...) |
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