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Mortality in Central and Eastern Europe
Long-term trends and recent upturns

 

France Meslé

 
SPECIAL COLLECTION 2 - ARTICLE 3
 
Date Received: 17 Feb 2003
Date Published: 16 Apr 2004

http://www.demographic-research.org/special/2/3/

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Abstract
While, during several decades, unfavourable trends in mortality were quite similar in Central Europe and in the former USSR, in the most recent years, these two parts of Europe are diverging. In most Central European countries, life expectancy is now increasing mainly thanks to a decline in cardiovascular mortality. Conversely, cardiovascular mortality is still increasing in Russia and Ukraine and its negative impact is reinforced by a worsening of violent deaths and infectious mortality. The situation of Baltic countries is still uncertain but it is not impossible that these countries soon resume with sustainable progress in life expectancy.

Author's affiliation
France Meslé
Institut national d'études démographiques, France

Keywords
cardiovascular diseases, cause of death, Central Europe, former USSR, life expectancy, violence

Word count (Main text)
5486

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