The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies

Abstract

PART I. THE MORTALITY CRISIS OF THE EARLY 1990S: A HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE 1. The transition mortality crisis: evidence, interpretation and policy responses 2. Mortality crises in a historical perspective: the European experience 3. Short-term, long-term, and hysteresis mortality models: a review PART II. UNDERLYING CAUSES OF THE MORTALITY CRISES 4. Alcohol as a cause of mortality in societies undergoing rapid transition to market economy 5. Transition, impoverishment and mortality: how large an impact? 6. Psychological and biological mechanisms behind the recent mortality crisis in Central and Eastern Europe PART III. INDIVIDUAL AND PUBLIC RESPONSES 7. Rising unemployment and coping strategies: the case of the Novosibirsk oblast in Russia 8. Transition, health production and medical system effectiveness 9. Fighting unemployment and stress: labour market policies in Central and Eastern Europe PART IV. EVIDENCE FROM SELECTED COUNTRY CASE STUDIES 10. The mortality crisis in East Germany 11. Population crisis and rising mortality in transitional Russia 12. The mortality consequences of the transition to market economy in Latvia: 1991-95 13. The decline of mortality in the Czech Republic during the transition: a counterfactual case study 14. Economic restructuring and mortality changes in Argentina: is there any connection? 15. When the welfare state works: unemployment and mortality in Finland 16. Labour market changes and mental illness in Denmark during the 1980s 17. The impact of income dynamics on mortality in the USA