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The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies
Edited by Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Renato Paniccià
480 pages
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tables and graphs
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234x156mm
978-0-19-829741-3
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Hardback
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03 August 2000
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- The first comprehensive assessment of the mortality crisis in transition economies
- Interdisciplinary collection of articles by demographers, economists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and health experts
In spite of widespread expectations of improvements in living standards and health conditions, in most of the countries of the former Soviet bloc the transition to the market economy was accompanied by a sharp increase in (already high) death rates. Such an increase provoked an 'excess mortality' of some three million people over the period 1989-96 alone, an unprecedented phenomenon in peacetime. Such a crisis remains poorly explained, has generated a limited policy response in the countries concerned and international organizations, and is bound to generate important political and economic
repercussions.
This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the mortality crisis in transitional economies, of its causes, and of its remedies on the basis - among others - of micro data sets and quasi-panels on health trends which have never been used before. Contributions by demographers, economists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and health experts provide a rigorous analysis of the upsurge in mortality rates, with the aim of contributing to the launch of vigorous policies to tackle the crisis.Readership: Labour market economists, demographers and epidemiologists, sociologists, and people interested in the relations between macroeconomic policy, labour market incomes, and health impact;
policymakers and international organizations.
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Edited by Giovanni Andrea Cornia, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, and Renato Paniccià, Researcher, Institute for Economic Planning, Florence Contributors:
Felix Abdala; Jiri Blazek; Martin Bobak; Giovanni Andrea Cornia; Christopher Davis; Greg J. Duncan; Dagmar Dzurov'á; Tor Eriksson; Rosa N. Geldstein; James S. House; Markus Jäntti; Juris Krumins; Massimo Livi Bacci; Pekka Martikainen; Michael Marmot; Peggy McDonough; Jacek Moskalewicz; Sonia M. Mychaszula; Alena Nesporova; Renato Paniccià; Daniel Rabczenko; Regina T. Riphahn; Vladimir M. Shkolnikov; Natalia Tchernina; Uldis Usackis; Tapani Valkonen; David R.
Williams; Bogdan Wojtyniak; Klaus F. Zimmermann
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"essential reading, not only for those interested in demographic changes in eastern Europe, but for anyone seeking better understanding of the interface between social structure and well-being and survival in human societies" - Population and Development Review, Vol.27, No.3
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Part I. The Mortality Crisis of the Early 1990s: A Historical and Theoretical Perspective
1: Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Renato Paniccià: The transition mortality crisis: evidence, interpretation and policy responses
2: Massimo Livi Bacci: Mortality crises in a historical perspective: the European experience
3: Giovanni Andrea Cornia: Short-term, long-term, and hysteresis mortality models: a review
Part II. Underlying Causes of the Mortality Crises
4: Jacek Moskalewicz, Bogdan Wojtyniak, and Daniel Rabczenko: Alcohol as a cause of mortality in societies undergoing rapid transition to market economy
5: Renato Paniccià: Transition, impoverishment and mortality: how large an impact?
6: Michael Marmot and Martin Bobak: Psychological and biological mechanisms behind the recent mortality crisis in Central and Eastern Europe
Part III. Individual and Public Responses
7: Natalia Tchernina: Rising unemployment and coping strategies: the case of the Novosibirsk oblast in Russia
8: Christopher Davis: Transition, health production and medical system effectiveness
9: Alena Nesporova: Fighting unemployment and stress: labour market policies in Central and Eastern Europe
Part IV. Evidence from Selected Country Case Studies
10: Regina T. Riphahn and Klaus F. Zimmermann: The mortality crisis in East Germany
11: Vladimir M. Shkolnikov and Giovanni Andrea Cornia: Population crisis and rising mortality in transitional Russia
12: Juris Krumins and Uldis Usackis: The mortality consequences of the transition to market economy in Latvia: 1991-95
13: Jiri Blazek and Dagmar Dzurova: The decline of mortality in the Czech Republic during the transition: a counterfactual case study
14: Felix Abdala, Rosa N. Geldstein, and Sonia M. Mychaszula: Economic restructuring and mortality changes in Argentina: is there any connection?
15: Markus Jäntti, Pekka Martikainen, and Tapani Valkonen: When the welfare state works: unemployment and mortality in Finland
16: Tor Eriksson: Labour market changes and mental illness in Denmark during the 1980s
17: Peggy McDonough, Greg J. Duncan, David B. Williams, and James S. House: The impact of income dynamics on mortality in the USA
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