Medical Doctors in Hungary: 30 Years after Graduation. Data on Lifestyle, Morbidity, Demography and Differences between Specialties
| Autor: | Imre Rurik, Endre Szigethy, Zoltán Langmár |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Aging medicine.medical_specialty Health Status media_common.quotation_subject Health Behavior Population Specialty Primary care Job Satisfaction Body Mass Index Physicians Health care medicine Humans education Exercise Life Style Demography media_common Hungary education.field_of_study business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Middle Aged Abstinence Family medicine Cohort Medicine Female Morbidity business Graduation |
| Zdroj: | Central European Journal of Public Health. 22:183-188 |
| ISSN: | 1803-1048 1210-7778 |
| DOI: | 10.21101/cejph.a3910 |
| Popis: | There are few studies from East and Central European countries on health-status, lifestyle and social circumstances of medical professionals. We evaluated data of a cohort of physicians who had graduated 30 years ago in Hungary and compared the data of their professional carrier, life style, health outcomes, and medical specialties. Questionnaires compiled by an expert group and filled in by 208 physicians (83 men and 125 women) were analysed. Men mostly work as surgeons, women were mostly employed as primary care specialists. Women changed their specialty and/or place of work more often than men. Male primary care physicians had more children than women and others specialists. At graduation, most of them had a normal BMI. Since then, a significant increase in weight and BMI was observed in both genders and across all specialty groups. The largest increase in body weight and BMI (mean 5.27) was recorded among female primary care physicians. Recorded physical activity was low in general, with male primary care specialists being most active and female primary care physicians the least. Female doctors in surgical specialties had longer resting time. Male physicians rarely participated in regular health screenings. The incidence of hypertension was higher than the Hungarian national average for that age. About 5% of primary care physicians identified themselves as regular smokers. Abstinence and regular daily alcohol consumption were reported in equal ratio. Burn-out symptoms were rarely experienced. This generation had started its medical profession before the significant progressive changes in the medicine occurred in the last decades. While physicians do not always follow their own professional advices, their lifestyle proved a little bit healthier than that of the population at large, especially for women and their health outcomes, except hypertension, were also better. In general, they were not satisfied with the financial and working conditions of the recent Hungarian healthcare system. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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