Health lifestyles and political ideology in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine

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• 作者：William C. Cockerham ; Brian P. Hinote ; Geoffrey B. Cockerham and Pamela Abbott
• 关键词：Health lifestyles ; Self-rated health status ; Political ideology ; Communism ; Belarus ; Russia ; Ukraine
• 刊名：Social Science and Medicine
• 出版年：2006
• 出版时间：April 2006
• 年：2006
• 卷：62
• 期：7
• 页码：1799-1809
• 全文大小：206 K

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This paper examines the association of political ideology with health lifestyle practices and self-rated health in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. The political trajectory of post-Soviet societies has taken two divergent paths, either toward democracy or autocracy. The health trajectory has followed the same pattern with the more autocratic states continuing to experience a mortality crisis, while those former socialist countries that have embraced democracy and moved closer to the West have escaped this crisis. This paper investigates whether political ideology in three post-Soviet countries that are firmly (Belarus), increasingly (Russia), or recently (Ukraine) autocratic is related to health lifestyles and health self-ratings. Data were collected by face-to-face interviews (andle=V-WA-A-W-WA-MsSAYVA-UUA-U-AAVCVWBVCB-AAVBUUVWCB-DBZVUWBYW-WA-U&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_userid=10&md5=3dcbec05633a1b00918af346ea046ce4"" title=""Click to view the MathML source"">N