Mohou rozdíly v laickém chápání zdraví vysvětlit rozdíly v subjektivním zdravotním stavu mezi statusovými skupinami?

• Authors: Kreidl M.

Title variants

EN

CAN STATUS DIFFERENCES IN LAY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT HEALTH EXPLAIN STATUS DIFFERENCES IN SUBJECTIVE HEALTH?

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The author reviews the theory of socio-economic inequality in health and concludes that the use of cultural values to explain the ubiquitous association between the socio-economic standing (SES) of individuals and their health is becoming increasingly prominent. Inspired by this, the author examines whether and to what extent several aspects of lay knowledge about and attitudes towards health can explain the social gradient in subjective health in Central and Eastern Europe. The author uses data from the second round of the European Social Survey and limits the analysis to data from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The data show that while there is a strong relationship between education and subjective health and also a relationship between education and various measures of lay knowledge about health, beliefs about health are only very weakly related to subjective health and thus fail to account for its dependence on SES. The author concludes that this may be the result of reciprocal causation between lay knowledge and subjective health. More enhanced research designs would be required in order to gain a better empirical evaluation of the causal relationships between SES, lay knowledge, and health.

Keywords

EN

HEALTH INEQUALITY; LAY HEALTH KNOWLEDGE; SES AND HEALTH; SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH; SUBJECTIVE HEALTH

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 55-86
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kreidl M.

• M. Kreidl, Katedra sociologie, Fakulta filozoficka Zapadoceske univerzity v Plzni, Univerzitni 8, 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic;

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA04648901