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Ten The social epidemiology of population health during the time of transition from communism in Central and Eastern Europe
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Abstract
This chapter shows how the population-wide effect of proximate psychosocial factors on public health can be truly enormous. It argues that the social shocks associated with the transition to capitalism in the 1990s in Eastern Europe are responsible for a massive increase in cardiovascular disease among working-age men. Population health statistics suggest that during the first four years of the transition period, there were dramatic increases in mortality among males and females of working age.
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Abstract
This chapter shows how the population-wide effect of proximate psychosocial factors on public health can be truly enormous. It argues that the social shocks associated with the transition to capitalism in the 1990s in Eastern Europe are responsible for a massive increase in cardiovascular disease among working-age men. Population health statistics suggest that during the first four years of the transition period, there were dramatic increases in mortality among males and females of working age.
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures, tables, maps and boxes v
- Preface vii
- Notes on contributors ix
- Introduction 1
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Differences in individual health behaviours
- The role of time preference and perspective in socioeconomic inequalities in health-related behaviours 9
- Examination of the built environment and prevalence of obesity: neighbourhood characteristics, food purchasing venues, green space and distribution of Body Mass Index 25
- Reinventing healthy and sustainable communities: reconnecting public health and urban planning 45
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Group advantage and disadvantage
- How and why do interventions that increase health overall widen inequalities within populations? 65
- The metaphor of the miner’s canary and black–white disparities in health: a review of intergenerational socioeconomic factors and perinatal outcomes 83
- From adversary to ally: the evolution of non-governmental organizations in the context of health reform in Santiago and Montevideo 97
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Psychosocial factors in individual health
- Health inequalities and the role of psychosocial work factors: the Whitehall II Study 115
- Inequality, psychosocial health and societal health: a model of inter-group conflict 131
- The social epidemiology of population health during the time of transition from communism in Central and Eastern Europe 143
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Healthy and unhealthy societies
- The impact of inequality: empirical evidence 159
- ‘Public goods’, metropolitan inequality and population health in comparative perspective: policy and theory 169
- Inequality and health: models for moving from science to policy 185
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Conclusions Public understanding of the new public health
- Promoting public understanding of population health 201
- Health, inequalities and mobilisation: human rights and the Millennium Development Goals 215
- What the public needs to know about social inequality and public health 231
- Index 237
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures, tables, maps and boxes v
- Preface vii
- Notes on contributors ix
- Introduction 1
-
Differences in individual health behaviours
- The role of time preference and perspective in socioeconomic inequalities in health-related behaviours 9
- Examination of the built environment and prevalence of obesity: neighbourhood characteristics, food purchasing venues, green space and distribution of Body Mass Index 25
- Reinventing healthy and sustainable communities: reconnecting public health and urban planning 45
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Group advantage and disadvantage
- How and why do interventions that increase health overall widen inequalities within populations? 65
- The metaphor of the miner’s canary and black–white disparities in health: a review of intergenerational socioeconomic factors and perinatal outcomes 83
- From adversary to ally: the evolution of non-governmental organizations in the context of health reform in Santiago and Montevideo 97
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Psychosocial factors in individual health
- Health inequalities and the role of psychosocial work factors: the Whitehall II Study 115
- Inequality, psychosocial health and societal health: a model of inter-group conflict 131
- The social epidemiology of population health during the time of transition from communism in Central and Eastern Europe 143
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Healthy and unhealthy societies
- The impact of inequality: empirical evidence 159
- ‘Public goods’, metropolitan inequality and population health in comparative perspective: policy and theory 169
- Inequality and health: models for moving from science to policy 185
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Conclusions Public understanding of the new public health
- Promoting public understanding of population health 201
- Health, inequalities and mobilisation: human rights and the Millennium Development Goals 215
- What the public needs to know about social inequality and public health 231
- Index 237
