Where psychology meets physiology: chronic stress and premature mortality—the Central-Eastern European health paradox

MS Kopp, J Réthelyi - Brain research bulletin, 2004 - Elsevier
A substantial and still growing body of research tries to link different psychological models
and chronic diseases, with special emphasis on cardiovascular disease. These efforts have …

Measures of stress in epidemiological research

MS Kopp, BK Thege, P Balog, A Stauder… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
A comprehensive assessment of psychosocial stress often poses significant challenges due
to diversity in conceptualization of stress. Consequently, a number of instruments that …

Health behaviour, risk awareness and emotional well-being in students from Eastern Europe and Western Europe

A Steptoe, J Wardle - Social science & medicine, 2001 - Elsevier
Life expectancy and other indices of health have deteriorated markedly in the former
socialist countries of Eastern Europe over recent decades. The possible roles of lifestyles …

Psychosocial risk factors, inequality and self-rated morbidity in a changing society

MS Kopp, Á Skrabski, S Szedmák - Social science & medicine, 2000 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to analyse the interaction of social, economic, psychological and
self-rated health characteristics of the Hungarian population in representative, stratified …

Social capital in a changing society: cross sectional associations with middle aged female and male mortality rates

Á Skrabski, M Kopp, I Kawachi - Journal of Epidemiology & …, 2003 - jech.bmj.com
Objectives: Social capital has been linked to self rated health and mortality rates. The
authors examined the relations between measures of social capital and male/female …

Jordanian patients' perception of stressors in critical care units: a questionnaire survey

IM Hweidi - International journal of nursing studies, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Critical care units' CCUs environment has been regarded as a leading
stressor because of the complex nature of patient's health problems that require an …

Self-rated health, subjective social status, and middle-aged mortality in a changing society

M Kopp, Á Skrabski, J Réthelyi, I Kawachi… - Behavioral …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
In this study, the authors examined the relationships between self-rated health and
subjective and objective socioeconomic status (as measured by income and education) in …

Comorbid depression is associated with increased healthcare utilization and lost productivity in persons with diabetes: a large nationally representative Hungarian …

EP Vamos, I Mucsi, A Keszei, MS Kopp… - Psychosomatic …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of depression among people with diabetes and to
examine the association of comorbid depression with lost productivity and health resource …

Cross‐country evidence on the social determinants of the post‐socialist mortality crisis in Europe: A review and performance‐based hierarchy of variables

G Scheiring, D Irdam, LP King - Sociology of Health & Illness, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
An unprecedented mortality crisis befell the former socialist countries between 1989 and
1995, representing one of the greatest demographic shocks of the period after the Second …

Receding horizons of health: biocultural approaches to public health paradoxes

CM Worthman, B Kohrt - Social Science & Medicine, 2005 - Elsevier
Worldwide challenges to health reflect a “paradox of success,” whereby both the strengths
and the weaknesses of current approaches in public health, epidemiology, and biomedicine …