Department of Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, and Estonian Centre of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Tallinn/Tartu, Estonia.
Scand J Public Health. 2010 Mar;38(2):129-34. doi: 10.1177/1403494809357259. Epub 2010 Jan 7.
To compare self-perceived health in relation to socioeconomic factors in Estonia and Finland.
This study was based on the 25-69 year old adult population of the European Social Survey, conducted in Estonia and in Finland in 2006. Self-perceived health was rated on the five-point scale as very good, good, fair, poor, and very poor. The socioeconomic position was measured by the level of education, economic activity, and self-rated financial situation. Logistic regression analysis was applied to assess the association between self-perceived health and the socioeconomic factors.
The prevalence of less-than-good health was significantly higher in Estonia than in Finland. Significant associations with less-than-good self-perceived health were found for less educated, economically non-active respondents with poorer self-rated financial situation in both countries. After adjustment, economic non-activity among women and self-rated financial situation among men appeared not to be associated with less-than-good self-perceived health in Finland.
Self-perceived health was poorer in Estonia than in Finland, but Estonia shares with Finland a similar socioeconomic pattern of health. Further research is needed to monitor socioeconomic variations in health behaviour and mortality in both countries.
比较爱沙尼亚和芬兰的自我感知健康与社会经济因素的关系。
本研究基于欧洲社会调查在 2006 年于爱沙尼亚和芬兰进行的 25-69 岁成年人的人口数据。自我感知健康状况采用五分制进行评估，分为非常好、好、一般、差和非常差。社会经济地位通过教育程度、经济活动和自评财务状况来衡量。采用逻辑回归分析评估自我感知健康与社会经济因素之间的关联。
爱沙尼亚自我感知健康状况不佳的比例明显高于芬兰。在两个国家中，教育程度较低、经济非活跃且自评财务状况较差的受访者，其自我感知健康状况不佳的比例较高。调整后，芬兰女性的经济非活跃和男性的自评财务状况与自我感知健康状况不佳之间似乎没有关联。
爱沙尼亚的自我感知健康状况比芬兰差，但爱沙尼亚和芬兰在健康状况的社会经济模式上存在相似性。需要进一步研究来监测这两个国家的健康行为和死亡率的社会经济差异。
