This paper uses World Values Survey data to investigate self-perceived health and its determinants in Hungary. Ordinal logistic regression modelling suggests that age, subjective well-being, and/or level of education and social economic status are significantly associated with self-perceived health. Vital statistics reveal that the life expectancy of Hungarian females at birth is 10% greater than that of their male counterparts (79.1vs. 72.2 in 2013). However, expected healthy years at birth in terms of percentage of the total life expectancy was almost 6 percentage points less for females than for their male counterparts (76.0% vs. 81.8%) in Hungary. This implies that, on average, women live longer, and yet are less healthy than men. Nevertheless, no significant gender difference has been found in self-perceived health in the above mentioned ordinal logistic models of Hungary. These contradictory findings might be associated with other hidden factors which require further investigation.

The recent controversy over the introduction of gender studies into public higher education brings together several crucial issues in terms of Hungarian public discussion. During the spring of 2017, three interconnected topics were brought into focus that speak to the current situation in Hungary: the question of gender, freedom of research and university autonomy, and the role and status of NGOs in society.

The past decade has witnessed a renewed interest in the main driving factors of economic growth in the OECD countries. The cross-country variability in both growth patterns and potential explanatory variables is significant with regard to the historical and geographical features of the countries under investigation.