Changing life expectancy in central europe: Is there a single reason?
| Autor: | Laurent Chenet, Martin McKee, Naomi Fulop, Ferenc Bojan, Pawel Kalbarczyk, Helmut Brand, Angela Hort |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Lung Neoplasms Adolescent Alcohol Drinking Population Life Expectancy Age groups Risk Factors Cause of Death Infant Mortality Medicine Humans education Child Cause of death Aged Retrospective Studies Aged 80 and over education.field_of_study Hungary business.industry Mortality rate Smoking Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infant Newborn Infant General Medicine Feeding Behavior Middle Aged mortality Infant mortality Czechoslovakia Cardiovascular Diseases Western europe Child Preschool Life expectancy Female Poland Circulatory disease business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom), 18(3), 329-336. Oxford University Press Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1741-3842 |
| Popis: | Background: During the 1980s, at a time that life expectancy at birth in western Europe has increased by 2.5 years, it has stagnated or, for some groups, declined in the former socialist countries of central and eastern Europe. Methods: A study was carried out to ascertain the contribution of deaths at different age groups and from different causes to changes in life expectancy at birth in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland between 1979 and 1990. Results: Improvements in infant mortality have been counteracted by deteriorating death rates among young and middle-aged people, with the deterioration commencing as young as late childhood in Hungary but in the thirties or forties in Czechoslovakia and Poland. The leading contributors to this deterioration are cancer and circulatory disease but, in Hungary, cirrhosis and accidents have also been of great importance. Conclusions: The patterns observed in each country differ in the age groups affected and the causes of death. Further work is required to explain these differences. |
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