Special Collection 2 - Article 3 | Pages 45–70
Mortality in Central and Eastern Europe: Long-term trends and recent upturns
| Date received: | 17 Feb 2003 |
| Date published: | 16 Apr 2004 |
| Word count: | 5486 |
| Keywords: | cardiovascular diseases, cause of death, Central Europe, former USSR, life expectancy, violence |
| DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2004.S2.3 |
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 (INED), France
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