Key Questions

• What is health?• How do various methods illuminate and

obfuscate measures of health?• How does our work challenge or extend

existing frameworks and theories?• How does representation matter?• What can our work and this region tell us

about health and health practices more globally?

COMPARATIVE FRAME/ METHODS/ MEASUREMENT

Post-Soviet Context:THE CHANGING INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH(medicine, public health, economy, environment, etc.)

RISK STRESS

HEALTH

Sources/ ResourcesFilters

StatesFormal InstitutionsSocial WorldInformal NetworksFamilies/Communities“Capitals” (social, cultural,economic, symbolic)

GenderStatusClassStratification SystemsAge (?)

knowledge, meaning, experience

IssuesDisabling and EnablingFacilitating/Discourage

Units and Levels of Analysis

Groupings

I. Strategies and Struggles

Maggie, Sarah, Jill, Elena and Anna

II. Vulnerabilities

Adriana and Irina, Kevin, Ted, Khatuna,

Erin

III. Social Change/Differentiation

Mark, Julie, Jennifer, Sergei

Emails• Group One

– Margaret.Paxson@wilsoncenter.org Maggie– jowcz2@uky.edu Jill– sadphill@indiana.edu Sarah– zdrav@socres.spb.ru Elena and Anna– temkina1@mail.wplus.netGroup Two– AdrianaBaban@Psychology.Ro Adriana and Irina– Irina_Todorova@post.harvard.edu– kevin.irwin@yale.edu Kevin– tgerber@ssc.wisc.edu Ted– khatuna@prc.utexas.edu Khatuna– ekoch@middlebury.edu ErinGroup Three

msorensen@unc.edu Mark– jvbrown@uncg.edu Julie– jbb@mail.la.utexas.edu Jennifer– zakharsv@online.ru Sergei

<mrfish@email.unc.edu>, <jtwigg@vcu.edu>, <cbuckley@mail.la.utexas.edu>