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Health saving activity as a health-promoting factor: the gender aspect

Shabunova A.A., Shuhatovich V.R., Korchagina P.S.

3 (27), 2013

Shabunova A.A., Shuhatovich V.R., Korchagina P.S. Health saving activity as a health-promoting factor: the gender aspect. Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast, 2013, no. 3 (27)

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The article analyses health-saving behaviour of population in the two countries – the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation (the case study of the Vologda Oblast) in the context of the gender aspect. The aim of the article is to highlight the specifics of behaviour of men and women in their choice of strategies of health-saving activity, which, in turn, influence their health condition. The results of an international multidisciplinary research testify that gender determines the choice of health-saving behaviour strategy

Keywords

health, health-saving activity, gender, self-assessment of health, men, women, population of the vologda oblast, population of belarus

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