Citation

Zonda T, Paksi B. Lege Artis Medicinae 2002; 12(2): 100-106.

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(Copyright © 2002)

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Abstract

Authors conducted a comparative sociological, social-psychiatric survey in the summer of 2000 on a representative sample (1000-1000 people) from counties with high and low suicide rates (Bács-Kiskun and Vas). They also studied the so-called "health-behaviour" of subjects since it was supposed that negation or refusal of medical help are forms of latent auto-agressivity, probably of common origin with "direct" self-harm (alcohol abuse, smoking, suicide), from deeper behavioural roots. The rates of morbidity and mortality of the two counties do not differ each other significantly with the exception of alcoholism. In spite of this facts, people living in the Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld) regard themselves in worse health condition than people in western countryside, presenting as patients in the health care system more frequently in the Alföld. Authors did not find any connection between the quality of health behaviour and the sharply divergent suicide rates of the two territories. Studying the two sample as a whole, they found marked problems in the field of health behaviour in both counties. They also stress that suicide and alcoholism in Hungary are very closely connected entities. Authors suggest that tasks for the public health service in this matter are significant.

Language: hu

Keywords

aggression; alcohol; alcoholism; article; automutilation; comparative study; Comparative study; controlled study; disease association; geographic distribution; health behavior; Health behaviour; health survey; human; Hungarian mentality; Hungary; incidence; major clinical study; morbidity; mortality; Samples of counties with high and low suicide rates; smoking; sociology; suicide; Tasks of public health