Нина Русинова
Biographic Data
| ID | 3577311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Нина Русинова |
| GIVEN NAMES | Нина |
| FAMILY NAME | Русинова |
| SIGNATURE | РУСИНОВА Н |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Sociology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8904-551X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Contextual Moderations of Age and Status Inequalities in Access to Healthcare
The article analyzes the problem of social inequalities in access to healthcare services in different countries of the world, including Russia. In modern research, such a subjective indicator as unmet medical care needs has become widely used in order to measure these inequalities. In particular, it was found that with age this indicator decreases significantly, while in economically vulnerable groups the values increase. Such age and status ineq…
Loneliness and health problems
The study examines the relationship between loneliness and of health and analyzes the societal conditions that influence its strength. Scientific literature shows that the feeling of loneliness is associated with stressful effects on the organism, which negatively affect health. At the same time, the question of what factors of the social context can enhance this effect of loneliness on health remains poorly understood. In order to clarify it, a …
The Impact of Network Status Resources on Health
The article is devoted to such a problem as the impact of social relations on people’s health. One of the directions in researching this issue is linked to analyzing social capital — network resources available to an individual to solve everyday problems. The conceptual basis of the research is the theory of positional network capital by N. Lin, according to which being acquainted to persons with high professional status provides an individual wi…
Health inequalities and personal psychological resources in European countries
Associations of values and self-rated health in the cultural contexts of European countries
Age Differences of SES Inequalities in Health
This article is devoted to such an issue as the changing socio-economic inequalities in health that come with age. According to one theoretical explanation, these inequalities increase when people get older: in the lower strata, the negative effects of life’s hardships on health accumulate, and in the well-off ones, conversely, an accumulated positive effect occurs. This explanation is opposed by theories that predict a reduction in inequality. I…
Mediators of health inequalities in Europe
The Psychological Mediators of Social Inequalities in Health
This study is devoted to psychologically mediating the social structuring of health. According to theoretical views, which have not yet received a convincing justification, the decline in the social status of an individual is accompanied by the loss of the psychological resources necessary to overcome the difficulties of life and the stresses caused by them, which leads to deteriorating health in the lower social strata. The verification of this …
The Effects of Unemployment on Health in European Countries
This article deals with the issue of social inequalities in health and the impact of societal context on these inequalities. It discusses the health differences between people with jobs and those who are unemployed, belonging to different demographic and social strata, as well as the influence of welfare state on these differences. Data from the European Social Survey (ESS 2006–2012, 33 countries), the World Bank and the International Labour Orga…
Health in Europe and Russia
The article is devoted to differences in people's health in European countries and the social inequalities associated with this subject. An analysis of 2008 European Social Survey data (a representative sample of twenty-eight countries), World Bank statistics, and World Health Organization statistics is conducted using two-level logistic modeling techniques. The analysis shows that as a rule public health in postcommunist countries is significant…
Social risks of depression in Europe and Russia
This article focuses on the problem of social differences in mental health in European countries. Data from the “European Social Survey 2012”, which was conducted in 27 countries, was analyzed using statistical methods of two-level linear modeling, along with statistics on the state of economic development, government healthcare expenses, and corruption control in these countries. Mental health was measured using the Center for Epidemiologic Stud…
Health in the European states
The article is devoted to a problem of social capital’s influence on SES inequalities in health. The European Social Survey data for 27 countries (ESS Round 6, 2012) and statistics for these countries (World Bank, Eurostat, etc.) were analyzed by means of hierarchical two-level modeling. In all states, whatever was the level of their general welfare, there were considerable inequalities in health between the lower and top layers of social structu…
Health in Europe and Russia
Article is devoted to health differences in the European states and social inequalities in health in Europe. The analysis of the European Social Survey 2008 data (representative samples of the population of 28 countries) and statistics of World bank and WHO, carried out with methods of two-level logistic modeling, shows that in the postcommunist countries health is, as a rule, significantly worse, than in other parts of the continent. The reason …
The Social Stratification of Health in Russia
Data on trends in the social stratification of health in Russia show evidence of definite social inequalities in the health of males and females in the post-Soviet period. Improvements in female health in the 2000s, which were observed in the best-off stratum, were conditioned by their overall rise in well-being and expansion of access to good quality fee-based medical services. These factors, however, did not affect males' sense of well-being; e…
Social Inequality and Strategies for Getting Medical Care in Post-Soviet Russia
This article examines the relationship between social status and medical help-seeking strategies in St. Petersburg, Russia. Analysis of in-depth interviews with a cross-section of the population revealed that access to and use of medical care varied greatly across the urban social structure. Those in the highest social strata used their knowledge and connections to gain access to the best care. Their social position and understanding of the syste…
Curing and Crippling
From its inception after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the centrally controlled Soviet medical system attempted to monopolize medical practice-stigmatizing and punishing alternative practitioners who worked outside the state system.Nonetheless, alternative medical practitioners survived the seven decades of Soviet power.Ordinary people never stopped seeking them out, and since the late 1980s, the number of alternative healers in the Russian Fede…
Russian medical care in the 1990s
Russian medical care in the 1990s
Social Inequality and Strategies for Getting Medical Care in Post-Soviet Russia
This article examines the relationship between social status and medical help-seeking strategies in St. Petersburg, Russia. Analysis of in-depth interviews with a cross-section of the population revealed that access to and use of medical care varied greatly across the urban social structure. Those in the highest social strata used their knowledge and connections to gain access to the best care. Their social position and understanding of the syste…
Curing and Crippling
From its inception after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the centrally controlled Soviet medical system attempted to monopolize medical practice-stigmatizing and punishing alternative practitioners who worked outside the state system.Nonetheless, alternative medical practitioners survived the seven decades of Soviet power.Ordinary people never stopped seeking them out, and since the late 1980s, the number of alternative healers in the Russian Fede…
Social risks of depression in Europe and Russia
This article focuses on the problem of social differences in mental health in European countries. Data from the “European Social Survey 2012”, which was conducted in 27 countries, was analyzed using statistical methods of two-level linear modeling, along with statistics on the state of economic development, government healthcare expenses, and corruption control in these countries. Mental health was measured using the Center for Epidemiologic Stud…
Health in the European states
The article is devoted to a problem of social capital’s influence on SES inequalities in health. The European Social Survey data for 27 countries (ESS Round 6, 2012) and statistics for these countries (World Bank, Eurostat, etc.) were analyzed by means of hierarchical two-level modeling. In all states, whatever was the level of their general welfare, there were considerable inequalities in health between the lower and top layers of social structu…
Russian medical care in the 1990s
Curing and Crippling
From its inception after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the centrally controlled Soviet medical system attempted to monopolize medical practice-stigmatizing and punishing alternative practitioners who worked outside the state system.Nonetheless, alternative medical practitioners survived the seven decades of Soviet power.Ordinary people never stopped seeking them out, and since the late 1980s, the number of alternative healers in the Russian Fede…
Social Inequality and Strategies for Getting Medical Care in Post-Soviet Russia
This article examines the relationship between social status and medical help-seeking strategies in St. Petersburg, Russia. Analysis of in-depth interviews with a cross-section of the population revealed that access to and use of medical care varied greatly across the urban social structure. Those in the highest social strata used their knowledge and connections to gain access to the best care. Their social position and understanding of the syste…
The Social Stratification of Health in Russia
Data on trends in the social stratification of health in Russia show evidence of definite social inequalities in the health of males and females in the post-Soviet period. Improvements in female health in the 2000s, which were observed in the best-off stratum, were conditioned by their overall rise in well-being and expansion of access to good quality fee-based medical services. These factors, however, did not affect males' sense of well-being; e…
Health in Europe and Russia
Article is devoted to health differences in the European states and social inequalities in health in Europe. The analysis of the European Social Survey 2008 data (representative samples of the population of 28 countries) and statistics of World bank and WHO, carried out with methods of two-level logistic modeling, shows that in the postcommunist countries health is, as a rule, significantly worse, than in other parts of the continent. The reason …
Health in the European states
The article is devoted to a problem of social capital’s influence on SES inequalities in health. The European Social Survey data for 27 countries (ESS Round 6, 2012) and statistics for these countries (World Bank, Eurostat, etc.) were analyzed by means of hierarchical two-level modeling. In all states, whatever was the level of their general welfare, there were considerable inequalities in health between the lower and top layers of social structu…
Health in Europe and Russia
The article is devoted to differences in people's health in European countries and the social inequalities associated with this subject. An analysis of 2008 European Social Survey data (a representative sample of twenty-eight countries), World Bank statistics, and World Health Organization statistics is conducted using two-level logistic modeling techniques. The analysis shows that as a rule public health in postcommunist countries is significant…
Social risks of depression in Europe and Russia
This article focuses on the problem of social differences in mental health in European countries. Data from the “European Social Survey 2012”, which was conducted in 27 countries, was analyzed using statistical methods of two-level linear modeling, along with statistics on the state of economic development, government healthcare expenses, and corruption control in these countries. Mental health was measured using the Center for Epidemiologic Stud…
The Effects of Unemployment on Health in European Countries
This article deals with the issue of social inequalities in health and the impact of societal context on these inequalities. It discusses the health differences between people with jobs and those who are unemployed, belonging to different demographic and social strata, as well as the influence of welfare state on these differences. Data from the European Social Survey (ESS 2006–2012, 33 countries), the World Bank and the International Labour Orga…
The Psychological Mediators of Social Inequalities in Health
This study is devoted to psychologically mediating the social structuring of health. According to theoretical views, which have not yet received a convincing justification, the decline in the social status of an individual is accompanied by the loss of the psychological resources necessary to overcome the difficulties of life and the stresses caused by them, which leads to deteriorating health in the lower social strata. The verification of this …
Mediators of health inequalities in Europe
Associations of values and self-rated health in the cultural contexts of European countries
Age Differences of SES Inequalities in Health
This article is devoted to such an issue as the changing socio-economic inequalities in health that come with age. According to one theoretical explanation, these inequalities increase when people get older: in the lower strata, the negative effects of life’s hardships on health accumulate, and in the well-off ones, conversely, an accumulated positive effect occurs. This explanation is opposed by theories that predict a reduction in inequality. I…
Health inequalities and personal psychological resources in European countries
The Impact of Network Status Resources on Health
The article is devoted to such a problem as the impact of social relations on people’s health. One of the directions in researching this issue is linked to analyzing social capital — network resources available to an individual to solve everyday problems. The conceptual basis of the research is the theory of positional network capital by N. Lin, according to which being acquainted to persons with high professional status provides an individual wi…
Loneliness and health problems
The study examines the relationship between loneliness and of health and analyzes the societal conditions that influence its strength. Scientific literature shows that the feeling of loneliness is associated with stressful effects on the organism, which negatively affect health. At the same time, the question of what factors of the social context can enhance this effect of loneliness on health remains poorly understood. In order to clarify it, a …
Contextual Moderations of Age and Status Inequalities in Access to Healthcare
The article analyzes the problem of social inequalities in access to healthcare services in different countries of the world, including Russia. In modern research, such a subjective indicator as unmet medical care needs has become widely used in order to measure these inequalities. In particular, it was found that with age this indicator decreases significantly, while in economically vulnerable groups the values increase. Such age and status ineq…
Economics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Inequality (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Global Health Care Issues (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)