Mortality in Belarus, Lithuania, and Russia: divergence in recent trends and possible explanations

Abstract: Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belarus, Lithuania, and Russia were quite comparable in terms of their socioeconomic development. Despite some differences in overall mortality levels, the three former Soviet republics were also very close to each other in terms of directions of mortality trends and age- and cause-specific mortality patterns. After 1991, all the three countries experienced substantial political and social transformations, and the challenges associated with the transition from a socialist to a market economy system. The sudden changes brought numerous problems, such as rapid growth in unemployment, falling standards of living, and growing social and income inequalities. These factors contributed to the significant deterioration of the health situation in all the countries, but the size and the nature of the mortality crisis was different in Belarus than it was in Lithuania and Russia. The marked similarities in socioeconomic and mortality trends in the count

Object Details

• Alternative title: La mortalité en Biélorussie, Lituanie et Russie: divergence dans les tendances récentes et explications possibles
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Postprint ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie ; 26 (2010) 3 ; 245-274

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2010
• Creator: Grigoriev, Pavel ; Shkolnikov, Vladimir ; Andreev, Evgueni ; Jasilionis, Domantas ; Jdanov, Dmitri A. ; Meslé, France ; Vallin, Jacques

Further information

• DOI: 10.1007/s10680-010-9210-1
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-204099
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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