Quantification of relationship between cardiovascular diseases mortality rate and selected socio-economic indicators – comparative analysis of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic

Abstract

The paper deals with an issue of the cardiovascular diseases mortality, which is currently the main cause of all the deaths, not only in the Czech Republic and in the Slovak Republic, but also globally. The main objective of the study is to analyse and to quantify the relationship between the cardiovascular diseases mortality rate and the selected socioeconomic indicators at the national level of the explored countries. Consequently, the results of the surveyed countries are compared by application a distance method from a fictitious object. As the results of the analysis show, from the selected socioeconomic factors, the health expenditures play a significant role-this determinant in the Czech Republic had a higher impact on the possible decrease in mortality than in the Slovak Republic. The other major socioeconomic factors are the unemployment rate, the secondary education unemployment rate, the tertiary education unemployment rate, and gross domestic product growth rate. They have different impact on the cardiovascular diseases mortality in the individual countries. This mortality rate is also analysed among the regions where significant regional disparities occur. The results of the comparative study provide an important platform for national and regional policymakers in the health and social field. They can also provide important information for national and international benchmarking.

Does “Rural” Always Mean the Same? Macrosocial Determinants of Rural Populations’ Health in Poland

“…Sex, age, educational level, nationality, civil status, occupational position, activity rate, lifestyle factors (frequent drinking, smoking, poor diet, physical inactivity, and BMI), physical work factors (lifting/carrying heavy loads, poor posture, uniform arm/hand movement, computer work, physical exposures at work, psychosocial work factors (long workdays, monotonous work, night/weekend/shift work, "people work", job insecurity, influence at work, and social support [32] Hence, the place of residence, through a specific combination of SDH, influences individual's state of health [33][34][35][36][37][38]. Usually, the dissimilarity between an urban and rural residence are the centre of attention, as the result of clear differences in SDH.…”