[10-year dynamics of attitude to health problems in the male population of Novosibirsk (epidemiological study based on the WHO MONICA program)].
OBJECTIVE
To evaluate changes for a decade in the attitude of men in Novosibirsk to health problems.


METHODS
WHO program MONICA has covered males aged 25-64 years (a representative sample from the population in one of the districts of Novosibirsk city). A total of 3 trials were made (in 1984, 1988 and 1994) which included questioning, registration of ECG, arterial pressure, height, body mass, biochemical tests of the blood.


RESULTS
Attitude of men to their health depended on their age. There was a trend to evaluate their health as more and more poor in men at the age of 25-43 and 35-44 years. In the group of 45-54-year-olds positive assessment of health was encountered 1.9 times more frequently, but the difference was not significant. At the age 55-64 years a growing number of men tend to assess their health as good. Since 1994 alcoholics among the elderly men grew in number as a response to the social and economic crisis.


CONCLUSIONS
The change in health evaluation from negative to positive in older men may relate to less intensive work.
Gafarov
V V
VV
Pak
V A
VA
Gagulin
I V
IV
Babina
T D
TD
D000328:Adult; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011159:Population Surveillance; D012800:Siberia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014944:World Health Organization