Do socio-cultural factors influence medical students' health status and health-promoting behaviors? A cross-sectional multicenter study in Germany and Hungary

• Main Authors: Henna Riemenschneider (Author), Péter Balázs (Author), Erika Balogh (Author), Axel Bartels (Author), Antje Bergmann (Author), Károly Cseh (Author), Nora Faubl (Author), Zsuzsanna Füzesi (Author), Ferenc Horváth (Author), István Kiss (Author), Jörg Schelling (Author), András Terebessy (Author), Karen Voigt (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Physical and mental health is important for coping with the high requirements of medical studies that are associated with a higher risk for severe stress, insomnia, smoking, harmful alcohol consumption and easier access to drugs. Health behaviors of medical students influence not...