Trends in the social stratification of health in Russia: 1990s and 2000s

• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology 2012-03-01
• Series: Социологический журнал
• Online Access: http://jour.fnisc.ru/upload/journals/1/articles/450/submission/proof/450-61-810-1-10-20150129.pdf

The article represents trends in the social stratification of health in Post-Soviet Russia. Self-assessment of health serves as the main health indicator. Statistical methods of multilevel modeling are used to analyze the representative surveys data (RLMS-HSE, 1994–2009). According to the results, there were clear-cut social inequalities in health among men and women. The health of women, especially in the higher income groups, met positive changes by the 2000s due to their growing wealth and access to the high quality paid medical services. These factors however did not work for men — the state of health, even for the upper economic strata, did not change for good.